| EMMASTONE | Actress who got to know the real-life Billie Jean King while portraying her in "Battle of the Sexes": 2 wds. |
| RAKINGIN | Subtly ingrain the king while earning lots (6,2) |
| BARTON | Surname of Emma, EastEnders actress who got to the final of Strictly in 2019 (6) |
| BETTYWHITE | Veteran actress who got to host "Saturday Night Live" in 2010 after a grassroots campaign |
| NOTI | "If it happened or ___, _ really don't know." (The real story evades me!) |
| OPERADIVA | The character Tosca, or the performer portraying her, e.g. |
| NORMA | "___ Rae" (Sally Field won a Best Actress Oscar for portraying her) |
| JUNE | ___ Carter Cash (Reese Witherspoon won an Oscar for portraying her) |
| DEV | First name of Mr Griffin, the former Radio 1 DJ who got to the finals of Celebrity MasterChef in 2017 and took part in Strictly in 2019 (3) |
| EMMA | Billie Jean in "Battle of the Sexes" (2017) |
| RIGGS | King's opponent in "Battle of the Sexes" |
| ISABEL | The Water Diviner and Red Dawn actress who got her start in Home and Away, ___ Lucas (6) |
| WON | Came in first in battle of the bands |
| STEVE | He plays tennis player Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes, - Carell (5) |
| MONEY | Drama about the real-life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, All the ___ in the World |
| ALL | Drama about the real-life kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, ___ the Money in the World |
| GUYGIBSON | The real-life hero of The Dam Busters who won the VC for his efforts (3,6) |
| BERING | Danish explorer sailing for Russia who got to Alaska straight after the Athabaskans, Aleuts, Inuit, Yupik, Tlingit, and Haida (6) |
| JLO | Nickname for the actress who got engaged to Ben Affleck twice |
| SECRECY | Confidence in battle of the Home Counties? (7) |
