| THERES | "___ no business like ..." |
| TEL | ___ no. (business card info) |
| EXTRA | "There's no business like show business like no business I know," they sang. "Nowhere could you get that happy feeling when you are stealing that ... bow" |
| SHOW | "There's No Business Like ___ Business" |
| ETHELMERMAN | American stage and screen star whose theme song became There's No Business Like Show Business (5,6) |
| BERLIN | Capital of Germany; or, the composer of the songs There's No Business Like Show Business and Anything You Can Do (6) |
| ETHEL | There's No Business Like Show Business became a signature tune for musical queen ___ Merman |
| MERMAN | American actress and singer, 1908 1984, whose signature song was There's No Business Like Show Business (6) |
| SAYINGS | Adages, such as "there's no business like show business" (7) |
| IRVINGBERLIN | Songwriter who composed White Christmas and There's No Business Like Show Business (6,6) |
| ANNIEGETYOURGUN | Musical that includes the number There's No Business Like Show Business |
| DONALD | Marilyn's There's No Business Like Show Business love interest |
| LIKESHOW | A host of Irving Berlin songs accompanied this 1954 musical starring Ethel Merman and Marilyn Monroe, There's No Business ... Business (4,4) |
| DIED | Did no business, as a movie |
| PLANGENT | Strategy clear, but no business booming |
| INAMORATAS | Samaritan has no business with lovers (10) |
| OBAN | Graduate has no business in resort town (4) |
| OUGHTNT | Had no business to remove top of branch with explosive (7) |
| ORINOCO | Gold has no business crossing one South American border |
| PRIVATESECTOR | Grunt, adjusting corset - it's no business of the state! (7,6) |
