| ETHELMERMAN | Anything Goes singer and actress referred to as 'The Grand Dame of the Broadway stage' (5,6) |
| ETHEL | With 18-Down, entertainer known as "the Grand Dame of the Broadway stage" |
| SYMS | Sylvia ___, so-called "Grand Dame of British Cinema" |
| PROPMAN | He works on the Broadway stage |
| SAMSMITH | Love Goes singer who won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Artist in 2021: 2 wds. |
| JANET | "That's the Way Love Goes" singer Ms. Jackson |
| MAVISBEACON | Character whom the Times once called "the grande dame of instructional typing software" |
| FREDASTAIRE | US film and Broadway stage dancer, singer and actor who starred in 10 films with Ginger Rogers (4,7) |
| TIMESSQUARE | Hub of the Broadway theater district |
| SWEETBIRDOF | 1959 Tennessee Williams Broadway stage play featuring the characters Chance Wayne and Princess Kosmonopolis (5,4,2,5) |
| DRESSIERSET | Elaborate Broadway stage decor, vis-a-vis summer camp theater stage design? |
| ROSALIE | 1937 MGM film adaptation of the 1928 stage musical of the same name, but with most of the Broadway score replaced with new songs by Cole Porter |
| TAPPING | Canadian actress Amanda known as the 'Grand Empress of Sci-Fi' to her fans |
| LESSING | The Fifth Child author who turned down the offer to become a Dame of the British Empire, Doris ... |
| EVATURNER | Opera singer made a Dame of the British Empire in 1962 (3,6) |
| TWIGGY | British fashion model and 1960s icon who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 2019 (6) |
| PETERALLEN | He is the subject of the Broadway musical, The Boy From Oz (5,5) |
| RACEHORSES | Types of animals trained for events such as the Grand National, Epsom Derby or Ascot Gold Cup (10) |
| SIBYL | Her 1938 ruling that cars be banned from the island of Sark has been continued to this day; the Dame of Sark, ... Mary Hathaway |
| DAPHNEDUMAURIER | Full name of a highly acclaimed author who was a dame of literary shadows, mistress of suspense and a granddaughter of Trilby's creator (6,2,7) |
