| ADIE | BBC's former chief news correspondent who wrote about her life in The Kindness of Strangers (4) |
| JOHN | Former news correspondent who appeared on Strictly 2008, _ Sergeant (4) |
| SUZY | Take a Vow businesswoman who lost her life in the Dales limo crash (4) |
| SMITH | Author of I Capture the Castle, The Hundred and One Dalmatians and The Starlight Barking who wrote about her childhood in Look Back with Love (5) |
| STARK | Explorer who wrote about her exploits travelling uncharted Middle Eastern lands by camel, donkey and foot in The Valleys of the Assassins and other books (5) |
| MERTON | Take a Vow businesswoman who lost her life in the Dales limo crash (6) |
| BOND | Presenter and the BBC's former royal correspondent. Jennie _ (4) |
| JENNIE | _ Bond, the BBC's former Royal Correspondent (6) |
| CARL | Former boyfriend of Kirsty Branning who"s back in her life in Albert Square (4,5) |
| JADA | ___ Lennox, mum of 49A's grandchild, who just wants to live her life in EastEnders (4) |
| GARY | BBC Washington correspondent who has been blind from the age of eight (4,9) |
| BLANCHEBOIS | Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| EXITLINE | Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. |
| HERR | Michael ---, war correspondent who authored 1990 novel Walter Winchell |
| BLANCHE | *"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| DIARY | Anne Frank's journal of her life in hiding during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, The ... Of A Y |
| RUKEYSER | Poet Muriel who wrote, "What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? / The world would split open" |
| STRANGERS | "I have always depended on the kindness of ...," said Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar |
| SERGEANT | Surname of John, former political correspondent who took part in Strictly in 2008 (8) |
| JOHNNY | Jenny Connor's former husband who drowned saving her life in Coronation Street (6) |
