| MOMMIE | She's the dearest |
| STEEPEST | The most precipitous, and the dearest |
| GRANDTIER | ____ boxes usually have the dearest seats at the Proms |
| ARE | Live in the dearest part (3) |
| STAND | Don't sit where the dearest seats are |
| BELOVED | The dearest, sweetest love is found in bed (7) |
| ALACARTE | The dearest menu? Yes, Carla ate excitedly (1,2,5) |
| STANDS | Doesn't sit where the dearest seats are (6) |
| COSMOS | Garden flower, repeatedly reduced, was the dearest one (6) |
| TOPEKA | "Do you hear that whistle down the line?" asked Judy Garland. "She's the only one that'll sound that way; On the Atchison, ... and the Santa Fe" |
| LINDA | She's the possessed Regan in the late William Friedkin's The Exorcist (5,5) |
| BLAIR | She's the possessed Regan in the late William Friedkin's The Exorcist (5,5) |
| TRIVI | I have rubbed away the end of Hecate's epithet (she's the goddess of the crossroads) (5) |
| ATCHISON | Judy Garland sang, "I figure that it's engine number forty-nine; She's the only one that'll sound that way; On the ..., Topeka and the Santa Fe" |
| ANNE | She's the queen of the cannery |
| NESSIE | She's the talk of the Loch |
| LIU | She's the voice of Master Viper in the Kung Fu Panda films |
| ALYANAZIR | She's the new receptionist at the V-Court Gym in Coronation Street (4,5) |
| CHANNINGTATUM | US actor who made his film debut in Coach Carter, and whose movies include Step Up, The Vow, She's the Man, White House Down and Magic Mike (8,5) |
| EVEN | On the level! She's the first lady to point (4) |
