| BEYONCE | She became Grammys' most awarded female artist (7) |
| LYNN | Most awarded female country singer |
| CASSATT | US artist who moved to Paris where she became friends with Edgar Degas and exhibited her paintings with the French Impressionists (7) |
| BUBBLES | A 1930 film short featuring Judy Garland before she became famous (7) |
| MATILDA | She became mild at a waltz (7) |
| MADONNA | Female artist with the most No1 singles and albums in UK chart history (7) |
| OKEEFFE | Female artist agreed pay rise before pay cut (7) |
| REFRAIN | Stop female artist during check (7) |
| EMINENT | Notable female artist with English conservationists (7) |
| KNOWLES | Billboard's most successful female artist, 2000-2009 |
| REFRAME | Express differently note by female artist and writer (7) |
| ANCIENT | After my auntie, who lives on the outskirts of Cullompton, lost her second husband, she became very fragile and oldlooking (7) |
| JADWIGA | Chosen as Poland's queen in 1384 when only a child, she became one of the country's great rulers (7) |
| YOKOONO | At 78, she became the oldest artist to have a #1 dance hit |
| ULANOVA | She became the Bolshoi's prima ballerina in 1944 |
| SABRINA | Youngest female artist to hold the top two UK chart spots (7,9) |
| RIHANNA | Billboard's Top Female Artist of 2011 |
| OFRILEY | Luxury biography of female artist (3,4,2,5) |
| THELIFE | Luxury biography of female artist (3,4,2,5) |
| RAPHAEL | ...music by a rising female artist |
