| LEAVEY | "Megan ?" (2017 biopic) |
| LINDHOLM | Megan ?, author of novels Wizard of the Pigeons and Harpy's Flight (8) |
| MILNE | Subject of the 2017 biopic "Goodbye Christopher Robin" |
| ITONYA | 2017 biopic about an Olympic figure skater |
| MOLLYSGAME | 2017 biopic about a poker empire |
| DANSTEVENS | (GKN) Actor who plays Charles Dickens in the 2017 biopic The Man Who Invented Christmas (3,7) |
| TUPAC | Subject of the 2017 biopic "All Eyez on Me" |
| MADTOBENORMAL | 2017 biopic of Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing (3,2,2,6) |
| DARKESTHOUR | 2017 biopic in which Gray Oldman played Prime Minister Winston Churchill: 2 wds. |
| MUGURUZA | Garbine ?, 2017 Wimbledon ladies' singles tennis championship winner |
| KONTA | Johanna ?, 2017 Wimbledon singles tennis championship semifinalist |
| COWS | The ?, 2017 novel by Dawn O'Porter |
| OSTAPENKO | Jelena ?, 2017 French Open singles tennis championship winner |
| WOULDBEWIFE | The ?, 2017 novel by Annie Wilkinson |
| FATALTREE | The ?, 2017 novel by Jake Arnott |
| READY | "... ___ for It?" (2017 Taylor Swift hit) |
| PERFECTSMOOTHSAILING | Effortless progress with zero snags? [2017, 1999, 1980] |
| WHOSE | "___ Streets?" (2017 documentary about unrest in Ferguson) |
| INHERITSHOES | Come into some footwear? (2017 horror, 2005 romcom) |
| MIGNO | Andrea ?, 2017 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix Moto3 series race winner |
