| LAPLANTE | Lynda ____wrote the TV series Widows and Prime Suspect |
| ALANPLATER | ____ wrote the TV series Trinity Tales, about a rugby league pilgrimage, including characters like the Wife of Batley |
| STEVEMCQUEEN | British director whose films include Widows and Blitz (5,7) |
| MIRREN | The Queen and Prime Suspect star Helen ___ |
| RAEBURN | Anna ___, agony aunt who co-wrote the TV series Agony, starring Maureen Lipman |
| TRAMELL | Sharon Stone's Catherine, crime-writer and prime suspect in Basic Instinct (7) |
| ELLINGTON | Duke, jazz composer and bandleader who wrote the TV theme for The Asphalt Jungle (9) |
| ELTON | Ben, English comedian, actor and author who wrote the TV sitcom Upstart Crow (5) |
| LOACH | Director who wrote the television play Cathy Come Home and films including Kes and I, Daniel Blake (5) |
| ROD | Serling who wrote the TV script "Perchance to Dream" |
| CHALKER | Baroness Lynda __, minister in the Major and Thatcher governments (7) |
| SNELL | Lynda _, chair of the Ambridge cricket team in The Archers (5) |
| CARTER | Lynda ___, US actress who played Wonder Woman in a 1970s TV series (6) |
| OPERETTAS | "The Merry Widow" and "The Mikado" |
| SNOOWILSON | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| ROSENTHAL | Jack ********* , English playwright who wrote the television play and subsequent musical 'Bar Mitzvah Boy' (9) |
| DAY | Beauty "Mission Impossible" (series) actress, Lynda ___ George. |
| SONIAS | The Merry Widow's merry widow and namesakes |
| BARON | Lynda _, plays Jane's mum in EastEnders (5) |
| IGGY | Azalea who sang Black Widow and Fancy |
