| MERNA | Gemma __, actress who plays bubbly Carmel Valentine in Hollyoaks (5) |
| CRAVEN | Gemma ___, actress who played Joan Parker in BBC TV drama series Pennies from Heaven (6) |
| ARTERTON | Gemma ___, actress who played the female lead in 2013 action film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (8) |
| LEGALLYBLONDE | 2001 comedy in which 18-Across plays bubbly law student Elle Woods: 2 wds. |
| GEMMA | __ Merna, actress who plays Carmel Valentine in Hollyoaks (5) |
| MCGINN | Jim __, fiancee of Carmel Valentine in Hollyoaks (6) |
| JIM | Murdered fiance of Carmel Valentine in Hollyoaks (3,6) |
| FIANCE | __, what is to Carmel Valentine in Hollyoaks (6) |
| LEILA | - George plays Katherine Valentine in Mortal Engines (5) |
| OATEN | Gemma __, Emmerdale actress who plays the part of Rachel Breckle (5) |
| ONION | What did Carol Ann Duffy give her valentine, in preference to a satin heart? (5) |
| SCAR | What Carmel Valentine had removed in Hollyoaks (4) |
| HAIFA | City and port on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel (5) |
| THERESA | Mother of little Kathleen Angel who was recently arrested for the murder of Calvin Valentine in Hollyoaks (7,7) |
| NUN | Hollyoaks" Carmel Valentine once thought she'd become this type of religious person (3) |
| NANA | How is better known to Hollyoaks locals Mercy McQueen and Carmel Valentine (4) |
| MAYOR | Clint Eastwood's onetime role in Carmel-by-the-Sea |
| REVEL | Walford's Carmel Kazemi calls her kitty Craig ___ Horwood, after the Strictly judge (5) |
| SHAKI | Affectionate name of Walford councillor Carmel Kazemi's youngest son (5) |
| ASHER | Biblical tribe which occupied fertile land along the coastal plane of Mount Carmel (5) |
