| HARLOW | Actress from town in Essex (6) |
| RAYLEIGH | A girly he annoyed from town in Essex (8) |
| ILFORD | Town in Essex (6) |
| MALDON | Town in Essex, England, famous for producing sea salt since 1882 (6) |
| EPPING | Market town in Essex that is the birthplace of TV presenter Ben Shephard (6) |
| BIGEND | Part of engine - from town in Wales, get one for free |
| WALTON | and 51/55dn, Small town in Essex on the North Sea coast, north of Clacton and south of Harwich |
| SANDRA | ___ Bullock actress from The Proposal who received a BFA in Drama from East Carolina University |
| CLORIS | Actress from Malcolm in the Middle and American Gods, - Leachman (6) |
| BACALL | Lauren _; actress from The Big Sleep (6) |
| GLORIA | Actress from wrong salon is a failure. (6,7) |
| DERVLA | Irish actress from Goodnight Sweetheart and Ballykissangel, _ Kirwan (6) |
| TUCKER | Aussie singer-songwriter and actress from The Secret Life of Us and McLeod's Daughters, Abi - (6) |
| JLAVUS | Noted singer/actress from the Bronx, familiarly |
| BARDOT | Actress from Paris |
| THERON | Oscar actress from South Africa |
| GRAYSELEGY | It was written in a churchyard in town in Essex before, say, in city in Cambridgeshire (5,5) |
| TILBURY | Port town in Essex in which Queen Elizabeth I addressed her troops in 1588, giving a famous speech (7) |
| NINE | Square in town in Essex (4) |
| GRAZE | Eat grass in town in Essex, say |
