| CHAKA | Given name adopted by the "Queen of Funk" |
| KHAN | Chaka, the "Queen of Funk" |
| NOSTRA | La -, name adopted by the Mafia in the USA (4,6) |
| COSA | La -, name adopted by the Mafia in the USA (4,6) |
| ELIOT | Pen name adopted by the author whose novel Middlemarch was reissued under her real name, Mary Ann Evans, earlier this year (5) |
| SIMON | Name adopted by the leader of a children's game in which players must do as said commander "says" (5) |
| WINDSOR | Name adopted by the UK's ruling dynasty in 1917 (7) |
| OWL | Grey ___, name adopted by the conservationist Archibald Belaney (1888-1938) |
| SUGARRAYROBINSON | Name adopted by the boxer born Walker Smith Jr |
| HARPO | Name adopted by the comedian Arthur Marx (5) |
| GREENPEACE | Name adopted by the Don't Make a Wave Committee in 1972 |
| KORS | Last name adopted by the fashion designer born Karl Anderson Jr. |
| TUDOR | Name adopted by the Skoda 1101 (5) |
| TEACUP | Under interrogation by the Queen of Hearts, the Hatter "bit a large piece out of his ____ instead of the bread-and-butter" |
| OPRAH | "A Night at the ___" ("The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" episode where the Banks family is interviewed by the "Queen of All Media") |
| YOUNGCORBETT | Name adopted by the world featherweight boxing champions born William H Rothwell and Raffaele Giordano |
| ARIA | Song for solo voice such as either of those sung by the Queen of the Night in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute (4) |
| ARETHA | Title of three albums by the Queen of Soul |
| SOLOMON | King of Israel visited by the Queen of Sheba (7) |
| TART | Type of pastry made by the Queen of Hearts in a nursery rhyme |
