| STRINGFELLOW | Peter _, English nightclub owner born in 1940 (12) |
| CUNARD | Samuel, Canadian ship-owner born in 1787 (6) |
| ROLAND | _ Mouret, fashion label owner born in Lourdes (6) |
| CABARET | Court maintaining a ban on English nightclub floor show (7) |
| BROTHERS | Studio owners born where Starr played. (6,8) |
| WARNER | Studio owners born where Starr played. (6,8) |
| ROS | Edmundo ?, Trinidad-born bandleader and nightclub owner who died in 2011 |
| BROOME | David, English show-jumping rider born in 1940 (6) |
| ZANDRA | ___ Rhodes, English fashion and textile designer born in 1940 (6) |
| PEARS | Peter ___, English tenor who created the role of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera The Tu |
| HUMPHREYBOGART | He plays nightclub owner Rick Blaine in Casablanca (8,6) |
| BLACK | Nightclub owner who was framed by enemy Fergus Collins in Hollyoaks (5,5) |
| BOGART | Actor who played nightclub owner Rick in Casablanca (6) |
| STARR | Rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940). |
| SMOKEYROBINSON | Former lead singer of The Miracles (born in 1940) |
| LUCKNOW | Indian city where Sir Cliff Richard was born in 1940 (7) |
| EXMOUTH | West Country seaside town where Pauline Collins was born in 1940 (7) |
| CHAY | ____ Blyth, Scottish yachtsman and rower born in 1940 (4) |
| REES | Leighton, Welsh darts player born in 1940 who was nicknamed Marathon Man (4) |
| ESTHER | ****** Rantzen, journalist and Childline founder born in 1940 (6) |
