| KEELER | Ruby of Hollywood musicals |
| DEE | Ruby of Hollywood |
| TAP | Hollywood musicals specialty, ___ dancing |
| ASTAIRE | Fred, actor and dancer who starred in ten Hollywood musicals with Ginger Rogers (7) |
| CAROL | One of the fanciful words for a collective blush, breast, gift, reliant or ruby of robins; an old English ring dance; the fluted ballad accompanying it; or, a hymn of joy, aka noel, that is chanted in |
| SINGININTHERAIN | Hollywood musical classic |
| GIGLI | Tenor initially longing to appear in Hollywood musical |
| GIGI | Lerner & Loewe Hollywood musical with Leslie Caron |
| DEES | Frances and Ruby of films |
| ORB | Love every other ruby of jeweled sphere (3) |
| BALAS | Ruby of a delicate rose -red variety |
| TUESDAY | Ruby of song |
| GUYSANDDOLLS | Man on the beach with Barbie and Ken produced Hollywood musical (4,3,5) |
| EASTERPARADE | American artist held by desperate criminal in Hollywood musical (6,6) |
| LALALAND | A few notes given by disheartened nerd concerning Hollywood musical |
| YOULLNEVERGETRICH | 1941 Hollywood musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter |
| REALGAR | Arsenic sulphide mineral also known as ruby of arsenic (7) |
| NUNN | Director of the original West End productions of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals Cats and Aspects of Love (4) |
| IRVING | Composer of songs and musicals including Annie Get Your Gun and the unofficial anthem of the USA, Go |
| LLOYDWEBBER | English composer of musicals who published his first piece at the age of nine, Andrew ... (5,6) |
