| ETHELMERMAN | She said of her performance of I Got Rhythm in Girl Crazy on Broadway in 1930, "When I finished that |
| CHER | Sonny and ___, singers of "I Got You, Babe" (4) |
| DUPRE | Jacqueline known for her performances of Elgar's Cello Concerto |
| EMBRACEABLEYOU | Song introduced by Ginger Rogers in "Girl Crazy": 1930 |
| MADRIGAL | Song mother goes over, first of all, in Girl Crazy? |
| BANKHEAD | Critic John Mason Brown advised of her performance in 1937, "Tallulah ... barged down the Nile last |
| ETHELCAIN | "American Teenager" singer-songwriter who said of her preference for rural living, "Nobody at Walmart knows who I am ... down here I can just be a local girl" |
| ANNCURRY | Former "Today" cohost who said of her abrupt 2012 dismissal, "It hurt like hell": 2 wds. |
| IRAGERSHWIN | I Got Rhythm lyricist who was an original member of the American Theater Hall of Fame: 2 wds. |
| DATE | Kim Basinger goes crazy on Bruce when she's drunk in Blake Edwards's '87 Blind ____. |
| RHYTHM | George and Ira Gershwin's I Got ____ was written for the musical Girl Crazy |
| MAID | 'Girl crazy,' I put in (4) |
| ICENI | As Boadicea may have said of her people, 'Nice one!' (5) |
| AUREVOIR | I finished up in a city of old for so long |
| IGOTRHYTHM | 1930 song by George and Ira Gershwin from the musical Girl Crazy which became a jazz standard (1,3,6) |
| IGOT | "___ Rhythm" ("Girl Crazy" song) |
| BITS | It's after the job's finished that there are offcuts (4) |
| ALREADY | "You're finished that quickly?!" |
| IRA | Whom "Variations on 'I Got Rhythm"' was dedicated to |
| GEORGERSHWIN | "Variations on I Got Rhythm" composer |
