| THORA | - - - Hird, veteran acting Dame (5) |
| EVANS | First of exceptional leads for acting dame (5) |
| DENCH | Judi _, well- loved acting Dame (5) |
| JULIE | Acting Dame whose new film, The Secret Garden, is out this week (pictured) (5,7) |
| TORME | Dame Thora Hird was the motherin-law of which popular American singer? (3,5) |
| THIRD | A part for Thora Hird (5) |
| HEADS | Talking -; Alan Bennett's series of monologues originally with a cast including Julie Walters, Maggie Smith, Patricia Routledge and Thora Hird (S) |
| JUDI | Acting dame recently interviewed by Louis Theroux (4,5) |
| JUDIDENCH | Acting dame and national treasure (4,5) |
| WALTERS | Acting Dame whose new film, The Secret Garden, is out this week (pictured) (5,7) |
| DRENCH | Saturate acting Dame? About right? (6) |
| JOANNA | National treasure and acting Dame, _ Lumley (6) |
| JUDITH | Acting dame Dench shortly seeing the Eggheads star Ms Keppel (6) |
| ANGELA | Murder, She Wrote acting Dame, Lansbury, can be seen in orange lace (6) |
| MAUREEN | Coronation Street's acting Dame Lipman collapsed near emu (7) |
| MEL | Dame Thora Hird was the motherin-law of which popular American singer? (3,5) |
| THIRDMAN | In the field, just the fellow for Thora Hird? (5,3) |
| EGAN | Interim Dons coach after James Hird, Matthew ... (4) |
| MATTHEWKNIGHTS | Essendon coach before James Hird (7,7) |
| BENNETT | Actor and playwright whose monologues Talking Heads originally included Patricia Routledge in A Lady of Letters and Thora Hird in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (7) |
