| SALMAHAYEK | 1997 Best Actress nominee and 2023 Oscars presenter; her 15-year-old daughter wore the very same dress at this year's event that she wore for the 1997 ceremony |
| AMY | Tracy and Steve's 15-year-old daughter in Coronation Street (3) |
| SHARAPOVA | Athlete Maria whose new memoir "Unstoppable" addresses her 15-month suspension from professional tennis |
| HELEN | 1997 Best Actress Winner who turns 60 today (with 6-Across) |
| ROCK | Chris ----, actor and Oscars presenter who angered Will Smith (4) |
| ROO | Oscars presenter finally turned up, a little bounder (3) |
| MICHELLE | ____ Yeoh, Malaysian actress who won the Best Actress award at the 2023 Oscars (8) |
| KIMMEL | Jimmy, comedian who hosted the 2023 Oscars (6) |
| TAR | Cate Blanchett film that was shut out at the 2023 Oscars |
| EVENAS | At the very same moment, or in the very same way that (4,2) |
| PROTECTOR | "Cowboy Carter" song for which Beyonce's 6-year-old daughter Rumi just set a new record for being the youngest female ever to chart on the Billboard 100 |
| LONGCOVID | A legal action was taken against the NHS by Helen Goss for her 11 year old daughter because of which illness? (4,5) |
| EFFIBRIEST | 1895 novel by Theodor Fontane whose title character is the 17-year-old daughter of a German aristocrat |
| COCOGAUFF | 15-year-old U.S. tennis phenom who beat Venus Williams in the 2020 Australian Open |
| CAPTAINSCOURAGEOUS | 1897 novel by Rudyard Kipling that follows the adventures of 15-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr |
| CORIGAUFF | 15-year-old victor over Venus Williams in the first round of Wimbledon 2019 |
| EARMUFFS | They were invented by 15-year-old Chester Greenwood in the winter of 1873 |
| JOHNWILLOUGHBY | Character in Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility who seduces Colonel Brandon's 15-year-old ward, Eliza |
| SURI | Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's 10-year-old daughter (4) |
| NORTH | Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's four-year-old daughter (5) |
