| HORGAN | Sharon, who helped to devise 20 across (6) |
| LAMARR | Hedy, film star who helped to invent a radio communications device (6) |
| ESTHER | ____ Rantzen, TV presenter who helped to set up charity Childline (6) |
| CICELY | ___ Saunders, social worker who helped to found the hospice movement (6) |
| DENNIS | Son of Sharon who's been causing mayhem for the other kids in the Square (6,7) |
| DUNCAN | Isadora ___, an early 20th century American dancer who helped to free ballet from its rigid conventions (6) |
| MOWLAM | Mo, Northern Ireland Secretary who helped to broker the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 (6) |
| DOMINO | Fats, byname of U.S. singer and pianist born in 1928 who helped to define the New Orleans R&B sound (6) |
| STEIFF | Richard ___, German designer who helped to create the teddy bear |
| HOWARD | Inspiration for Constable, Goethe, Ruskin, Shelley and Turner, amateur meteorologist who adopted Linnaean principles to devise the nomenclature system for clouds we use today (6) |
| THATCH | Local Big Wig to devise plan after tea (6) |
| OMELET | Folk must be crackers to devise such a dish (6) |
| CASE | SHARON WHO DEBUTED AS Y&R'S SHARON (1994) |
| GEORGEBOOLE | English mathematician who helped to found modern symbolic logic (6,5) |
| RICKMAN | Dennis __, son of Sharon who appears to have curtailed his unruly behaviour in EastEnders (7) |
| GLESS | Sharon who starred in "Cagney & Lacey" |
| STONE | Sharon who starred on HBO's "Mosaic" |
| OLDS | Poet Sharon who won a Pulitzer |
| SMALL | Little Sharon who played DS Havers in The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (5) |
| JOANBAEZ | American folk singer, songwriter and activist who helped to bring the songs of Bob Dylan to prominence |
