| GLENDAJACKSON | Labour MP who won Best Actress Oscars for Women in Love and A Touch of Class (6,7) |
| INGRIDBERGMAN | She won best actress Oscars for Gaslight and Anastasia |
| NOSTALGIA | What could be lasting, involving love and a touch of agony? |
| BIRDSDOIT | Lyric in a Porter song that ends "Let's fall in love," and a hint to the starts of the starred answe |
| TWIGG | Stephen, Labour MP who won Michael Portillo's seat in 1997 (5) |
| HILARYSWANK | American actress who won Best Actress Oscars for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby |
| EMMATHOMPSON | British winner of best actress Oscars for Howards End and Sense and Sensibility |
| LUISE | Rainer who won back-to-back Best Actress Oscars for 1936 and 1937 |
| LAWRENCE | Son of a coalminer and a lace-maker, a prolific writer whose novels include The White Peacock, The Rainbow, Women in Love and Lady Chatterley's Lover (8) |
| GLENDA | Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar winner for Women in Love (6,7) |
| JANEFONDA | American actress who won two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for Klute and Coming Home (4,5) |
| DIE | Dramatic love story of a German who falls in love but must return to the trenches, A Time To Love And A Time To ... |
| CHASTAIN | Jessica, U.S. actress who won Best Actress Oscar in 2022 for playing the lead in the film The Eyes Of Tammy Faye (8) |
| ZOE | Saldana who won Best Actress in a Supporting Role last night for playing Rita Mora Castro in "Emilia Perez" |
| MADISON | Mikey ___, actress who won Best Actress Oscar in 2025 for her role in Anora (7) |
| DAVID | and 34ac, English actor whose TV series include Only Fools and Horses, The Darling Buds of May and A Touch of Frost |
| SPECIFIC | Pertwee's limits in Dr Who, perhaps: a touch of class well defined (8) |
| SEGAL | George ___ (b 1934), New York-born actor who starred in A Touch of Class (5) |
| JASON | see 7ac, English actor whose TV series include Only Fools and Horses, The Darling Buds of May and A Touch of Frost |
| ANTIWAR | An upturn of humour and a touch of ridicule opposing military action (7) |
