| HILL | Novel by John Cleland subtitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (5,4) |
| FANNY | Novel by John Cleland subtitled Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (5,4) |
| FANNYHILL | Name by which 1748 John Cleland novel Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure is known |
| MEMOIRS | ___ of a Woman of Pleasure, book better known by the title Fanny Hill (7) |
| BALLERINA | British, then French, go in with a woman of elegance (9) |
| BRADFORD | Married name of Barbara Taylor, author of A Woman of Substance and the Cavendon Chronicles (8) |
| TROLLOP | Hungry local seen in company of a woman of ill-repute (7) |
| DONNA | Which term comes from an Italian title prefixed to the given name of a woman of high rank (5) |
| NUNN | Senator succeeded by Cleland |
| AMPUTEE | Senator Tammy Duckworth or former senator Max Cleland |
| JEWESS | The first person wearing a sort of strap is a woman of faith (6) |
| SAMNUNN | Max Cleland took his seat |
| DEMIREP | Old word for a woman of a dubious reputation (7) |
| ORATRESS | A sorter's sorted, being a woman of her word (8) |
| MADAM | Polite term of address to a woman of authority (5) |
| POSTMISTRESS | The job is given to a teacher, a woman of letters (12) |
| SAPPHO | Part of this app honours a woman of poetry (6) |
| LADY | A red, seven-spotted insect bird - according to a woman of good social position! (4) |
| BARBARATAYLORBRADFORD | Leeds-born novelist whose debut novel A Woman of Substance. was published in 1979 (7,6,8) |
| MADAME | From "my lady", French word for a "Mrs" or a woman of artistic or exotic means, such as palm-reading (6) |
