| HEROINES | Female protagonists, the ... of the story |
| HEROINE | Female protagonist, the ... of the novel |
| MORAL | Lesson, the ... of the story |
| ELLIE | Female protagonist of the video game The Last of Us |
| KATIEMORAG | Female protagonist of a series of children's books set on the Isle of Struay (5,5) |
| CHRISTINE | Who is the female protagonist in The Phantom of the Opera? (9) |
| ESMERALDA | Female protagonist of 'The Hunchback of Notre-dame' (9) |
| MIA | ___ Toretto, female protagonist of the "Fast and the Furious" films |
| BUTTERCUP | Female protagonist of the book and film 'The Princess Bride' (9) |
| ANA | Female protagonist of "Fifty Shades of Grey," for short |
| CATHERINEEARNSHAW | Female protagonist of the novel Wuthering Heights (9,8) |
| MSPACMAN | Female protagonist in a video game of the same name |
| CONNOR | Sarah ___, female protagonist of the Terminator franchise (6) |
| ANASTASIASTEELE | Female protagonist in the Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy (9,6) |
| SALLYBOWLES | Female protagonist of the 1966 stage musical Cabaret by John Kander and Fred Ebb (5,6) |
| EARNSHAW | Maiden name of Catherine Linton, the female protagonist in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (8) |
| HOLLYGOLIGHTLY | Female protagonist of the 1958 Truman Capote novel Breakfast At Tiffany's (5,9) |
| BELLA | Female protagonist of the young adult tetralogy Twilight (2005-08) by US author Stephenie Meyer (5,4) |
| SWAN | Female protagonist of the young adult tetralogy Twilight (2005-08) by US author Stephenie Meyer (5,4) |
| CATHY | Female protagonist of Wuthering Heights (5) |
