| THEMAY | Queen of ___ |
| SHEBA | Queen of ___ |
| SOUL | 'Queen of _', nickname of Aretha Franklin (4) |
| CRIME | Queen of ___; a nickname of detective novelist Agatha Christie (5) |
| KATWE | Queen of ___ biographical sports drama film depicting the life of a chess player who becomes a Woman Candidate Master |
| SHOPS | Queen Of ____, nickname of retail consultant Mary Portas (5) |
| SCOTS | "Mary, Queen of ___" |
| LEENANE | Off-Broadway's "The Beauty Queen of ___" |
| ARAB | Nancy Ajram, the Queen of ___ Pop |
| SALSA | Celia-Cruz,-aka-Queen-of-___ |
| SPADES | The Queen of ___, 1833 Pushkin novella (6) |
| POP | Queen of ___ (nickname for Madonna) |
| HEARTS | Queen of ___, character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (6) |
| LATIN | Shakira has been called "the Queen of ___ Pop" |
| THEAMAZONS | In 1.1, Hippolyta is described as the queen of ___ ___. |
| LOCHLEVEN | Body of water in Scotland housing a castle that was the place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scot |
| DARNLEY | Lord -; title of Henry Stuart, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots implicated in the murder of David Rizzio before being murdered himself at Kirk o' Field (7) |
| LEVEN | Loch ___, body of water in Perth and Kinross, Scotland housing a castle that was a place of imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots (5) |
| VASHTI | Queen of Persia, first wife of Ahasuerus, in the Book of Esther, part of the Hebrew bible (6) |
| MUM | Queen ___ (mother of the Queen of England) |