| MAE | --- West, U.S. actress |
| KANYE | ___ West, U.S. rapper, producer and fashion designer born in 1977 (5) |
| ADAM | ____ West, U.S. actor who portrayed Batman on television in the 1960s (4) |
| TOPEKA | Capital of mid-west U.S. state known as The Sunflower State (6) |
| KIM | --- Basinger, U.S. actress (3) |
| EVA | --- Longoria, U.S. actress (3) |
| MIA | --- Farrow, U.S. actress (3) |
| ALI | --- MacGraw, U.S. actress (3) |
| CLOSEOUT | U.S. actress divulged end (5,3) |
| POMPEO | Ellen, U.S. actress who plays the title character in TV show Grey's Anatomy (6) |
| LORETTA | _ Swit, U.S. actress who played Major 'Hot Lips' Houlihan in the TVseries M*A*S*H (7) |
| ELLEN | _ _ _ _ _ Burstyn, U.S. actress who played Regan's mother in the 1973 film The Exorcist (5) |
| HOLMES | Katie, U.S. actress who played Joey Potter in the TV teen drama series Dawson's Creek (6) |
| MOORE | Julianne, U.S. actress who won a Best Actress Oscar for the 2014 film Still Alice (5) |
| DREWBARRYMORE | U.S. actress who starred as Elliott's younger sister in the 1982 film E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (4,9) |
| THEWIZARDOFOZ | 1939 musical fantasy film starring U.S. actress Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale (3,6,2,2) |
| FARROW | Mia, U.S. actress who starred in Rosemary's Baby (6) |
| PAMGRIER | U.S. actress who played the title role in the 1997 film Jackie Brown (3,5) |
| CHANNING | Stockard, U.S. actress who played First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the TV series The West Wing (8) |
| KIRSTEN | ____ Dunst, U.S. actress who played Mary Jane Watson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (7) |
