| ADIE | Kate ?, journalist whose autobiography The Kindness Of Strangers was published in 2002 |
| BLANCHE | *"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| EXITLINE | Blanche DuBois's "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," e.g. |
| BLANCHEBOIS | Heroine who declares "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers" |
| MCEWAN | Novelist whose The Comfort of Strangers was adapted into a film from Harold Pinter's screenplay (6) |
| GIELGUD | British actor whose autobiography "An Actor in his Time" was published in 1979 |
| YEHUDIMENUHIN | Virtuoso violinist whose autobiography Unfinished Journey: Twenty Years Later was published in the late 1970s (6,7) |
| HUMANITY | The kindness of people (8) |
| STRANGERS | "I have always depended on the kindness of ...," said Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar |
| HITCH | Type of knot; a movie with Will Smith; or, the nickname of the director whose films include of Strangers on a Train, Rear Window and The Birds (5) |
| CLAREHOLLINGWORTH | Journalist whose “scoop of the century” was the outbreak of World War II |
| SEBOLD | Alice ___, U.S. novelist who wrote the novel The Lovely Bones published in 2002 (6) |
| ILLUSIONS | 'The Book of ********* ', novel by Paul Auster published in 2002 (9) |
| AMANDA | ___ Holden, Britain's Got Talent judge whose autobiography No Holding Back was published in 2013 (6) |
| ROMESHRANGANATHAN | Stand-up comedian whose autobiography Straight Outta Crawley was published in 2018 |
| TARBELL | Ida ___, US investigative journalist whose The History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) hastened the breaking up of that company's monopoly (7) |
| HARRIS | Frank, writer and journalist whose autobiography My Life and Loves was banned (6) |
| ASIA | Was I about to cover continent ITV'S Strangers was set in? (4) |
| WINN | Godfrey -, author of the volumes of autobiography The Positive Hour and The Infirm Glory (4) |
| HELENKELLER | US author of 1903 autobiography The Story of My Life; subject of 1962 biopic The Miracle Worker |
