| GLADYS | - - - Knight, the Pips frontwoman (6) |
| BAXTER | "Anchorman" dog whose name references Ted Knight's "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" character |
| KNIGHT | Gladys ---, singer with The Pips (6) |
| STONED | Drunk when the pips have been removed (6) |
| SEEDED | With the pips removed (6) |
| KARENO | 2013 Oscar-nominated frontwoman for rock's Yeah Yeah Yeahs |
| ACINUS | A Charlie being employed endlessly gives you the pip! |
| SEERED | Be annoyed, or get the pip about, again (3,3) |
| ARISTOPHANES | The Knights, The Frogs and The Wasps are among the plays of which Ancient Greek comic playwright? (12) |
| HEATHER | _ Knight the captain of the England women's cricket team (7) |
| VINSCULLY | "Little roller up along 1st...behind the bag! It gets through Buckner! Here comes Knight, the Mets win it!" |
| COMMONOCTOPUS | Current 2025 national bestseller by Canadian author Emma Knight, The Life Cycle of the ___ ___ |
| OLIVIER | Acting knight the source of inspiration at heart of musical (7) |
| JEDI | Knight's the first person in Paris I'd backed (4) |
| GLADYSKNIGHT | Which American rhythm 'n' blues singer performed from 1952 to the 1980s with her group the Pips? (6,6) |
| END | "The ___ of Our Road" (Gladys Knight & the Pips song) |
| ROSS | The Supremes frontwoman, Diana ... |
| JOSIE | Frontwoman for the Pussycats |
| JOANJETT | The Blackhearts frontwoman |
| WELCH | Florence _, frontwoman of Florence And The Machine (5) |
