| GYPSY | Based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee about her showbiz mother. |
| TAKEOFF | Give impression of striptease artist (4,3) |
| LEE | Famous thirties burlesque artist, Gypsy Rose ... |
| MIDWIFERY | Portrayed in a drama originally based on the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, health profession also called obstetrics (9) |
| BENVENUTOCELLINI | Opera by Hector Berlioz loosely based on the memoirs of a Florentine sculptor |
| THESOUNDOFMUSIC | Oscar-winning musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers |
| PIANIST | The ___, 2002 drama film based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman (7) |
| JOAN | ITV series based on the memoir of jewel thief, __ Hannington (4) |
| ARGO | Best Picture winner based on the memoir "The Master of Disguise" |
| OCTOBERSKY | Movie based on the memoir "Rocket Boys" (and an anagram of "Rocket Boys") |
| WAYNESWORD | Movie about the memoirs of the Duke? |
| STUDBOOK | The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova De Seingalt perhaps written formally for the breeders (4,4) |
| HAVOC | June ?, Canada-born actress; younger sister of Gypsy Rose Lee (5) |
| BURLESQUE | Type of U.S. music hall devised by Michael Leavitt whose stars included Gypsy Rose Lee (9) |
| STRIPPER | Gypsy Rose Lee found fame in the 1930s as a what? (8) |
| JUNE | American actress born in 1916, sister of Gypsy Rose Lee (4,5) |
| ELENI | 1985 title movie role for Canadian actress Kate Nelligan, based on the memoir by Greek author Nicholas Gage |
| GEORGE | Margaret __, author of The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997) (6) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried ___, English war poet, volumes of whose fictionalised autobiography were published as The Memoirs of George Sherston (1937) (7) |
| FANNYHILL | The 'Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure' |
