| DANNER | Actress Paltrow's actress mother (6) |
| BDS | Initials-sharers of Gwyneth Paltrow's actress mom |
| HEDREN | Tippi ___, actress mother of Melanie Griffith who played the title role in 1964 film thriller Marnie (6) |
| GOLDIE | Our star's actress mother: - Hawn |
| BLYTHE | Gwyneth Paltrow's mother, ... Danner (6) |
| ACTING | Paltrow's line difficult without former lover (6) |
| PEPPER | Gwyneth Paltrow's character in IronMan, ... Potts (6) |
| LOE | Judy ___, actress-mother of actress Kate Beckinsale (3) |
| PHYLLIDA | Actress-mother of actress Emma Thompson (8,3) |
| HAWN | Goldie, actress mother of the actress Kate Hudson (4) |
| MEARA | Ben Stiller's actress mother Anne |
| MELANIE | Dakota Johnson's actress mother, ___ Griffith (7) |
| GWYNETH | Actress mother of Chris Martin's children, ... Paltrow (7) |
| PHYLLIDALAW | Scottish actress, mother of Emma Thompson (8,3) |
| LADD | Diane _, actress mother of Laura Dern (4) |
| DIANE | Our star's actress mother: - Ladd |
| JUDYGARLAND | Liza Minnelli's actress mother (4,7) |
| TERRY | Ellen ___, British actress; mother of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig (5) |
| ELLEN | British actress; mother of theatre practitioner Edward Gordon Craig (5,5) |
| TIPPI | Melanie Griffith's actress mother who starred in Hitchcock's The Birds, ... Hedren |
