| GRANDOLEOPRY | *"Country's Most Famous Stage" |
| LUNT | Famous stage name |
| BOOTH | Infamous or famous stage name |
| LEGENDARY | Famous stage ready for transformation around November (9) |
| RON | ___ Moody, famous stage Fagin (3) |
| ROT | Dry ___, famous stage farce (3) |
| EXIT | ___, pursued by a bear: famous stage direction from Shakespeare's Winter's Tale. (4) |
| CHANTALPETITCLERC | The Honourable ___ ___ (Canadian Senator who is one of our country's most decorated Paralympic athletes) |
| PARISSE | Sergio ....... , Italy captain in the 2011 Rugby World Cup; the country's most-capped player (7) |
| BELABARTOK | Hungarian composer, 1881-1945, regarded as his country's most important composer since Liszt (4,6) |
| CILLIANMURPHY | Irishman who won Best Actor Oscar last month; he bears his country's most common surname |
| OSPINA | David, Colombian goalkeeper and his country's most capped player (6) |
| BRAINDRAIN | Situation when a country's most talented people are leaving to live elsewhere (2 wds.) |
| MODENA | Italian city which is home to that country's most acclaimed restaurant, Osteria Francescana |
| UTTAR | Which state of India, the country's most populous, was known as United Provinces from 1935 and was given its current name in 1950? (5,7) |
| PRADESH | Which state of India, the country's most populous, was known as United Provinces from 1935 and was given its current name in 1950? (5,7) |
| KING | With 2-Down, a famous stage father |
| POE | Baltimore's most famous author |
| AMADO | Brazil's most famous author |
| ENYA | County Donegal's most famous musical daughter |
