| MISSSAIGON | Musical first performed in 1989 telling the story of an Asian woman abandoned by her U.S. lover (4,6) |
| SAM | Actor Rockwell who described feeling like an Asian woman in a "The White Lotus" monologue |
| RUSHERS | Her U.S.S.R. football linemen |
| INETA | This little girl was abandoned by her mother to live with her father Aleks on Albert Square (5,7) |
| ARIADNE | Woman abandoned by Theseus |
| ALI | Woman abandoned by son, a heavyweight boxer once |
| SAIGON | Miss _. stage musical first performed in 1989. based on Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly (6) |
| BETTERHALF | Bather felt abandoned by her indoors (6,4) |
| MAIDMARIAN | Help spoil information held by staff, revealing outlaw's lover (4,6) |
| MINDREADER | Has something on the brain to care for book lover (4,6) |
| MARKANTONY | Cleopatra's lover (4,6) |
| MATILDA | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The Musical, stage musical first performed in 2010 based on a children's book by Roald Dahl (7) |
| MEANDMYGIRL | Musical first performed in the West End in 1937, featuring the song The Lambeth Walk (2,3,2,4) |
| HIAWATHA | 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the story of an Ojibwe warrior chief and his lover Minnehaha (3,4,2,8) |
| THESONGOF | 1855 epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow telling the story of an Ojibwe warrior chief and his lover Minnehaha (3,4,2,8) |
| HOOK | 1991 film, directed by Steven Spielberg, which tells the story of an adult Peter Pan (4) |
| SALADDAYS | Musical first performed in 1954, in Bristol (5,4) |
| CABARET | Musical first performed in 1966 that includes the songs Willkommen and Mein Herr (7) |
| ANNIE | Musical first performed in 1976, featuring the song Tomorrow (5) |
| POTEMKIN | Catherine the Great’s lover who achieved a peaceful annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 1783 |
