| TOMDICKORHARRY | Song for Kate and her three suitors in Kiss Me, Kate |
| ANNEPAGE | Character with three suitors in The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| IDMISTON | I'm going to visit my son in East Dorset, and then my daughter and her three children in their new place just outside of Porton (8) |
| ATALANTA | Fleet-footed maiden who raced against her suitors in Greek mythology (8) |
| SHESGOTTAHAVEIT | Spike Lee's first feature film, in which Nola Darling juggles three suitors |
| HIM | Sitcom which starred Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani as a lazy couple, _ & Her (3) |
| CAROLINE | ___ Quentin, actress, Strictly contestant and 8A's co-star in Kiss Me Kate (8) |
| KAY | Either of two lead characters in "Kiss Me, Kate" |
| LILLI | ___ Vanessi, leading lady in Kiss Me Kate (5) |
| LOISLANE | Character in "Kiss Me, Kate" |
| ANN | Miller in "Kiss Me Kate" |
| REICH | Wilhelm ___, an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst portrayed by "37" in a video for Kate Bush's song Cloudbusting |
| PECKING | (& 6-down) Hierarchy seen in Kiss Me Kate? (7,5) |
| GASLIGHT | 1944 thriller film for which Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three acting Oscars (8) |
| MARIABUENO | Brazilian tennis player who won the first of her three ladies' singles titles at Wimbledon in 1959 |
| ANASTASIA | Bolsheviks dispatched her three articles about secret police |
| MARION | Jones, female American sprinter stripped of her three gold medals from the 2000 Olympics (6) |
| CELINEDION | Canadian singer who made a recent visit to Las Vegas with her three kids |
| MRDARCY | Elizabeth Bennet's suitor in 'Pride and Prejudice' |
| GASTON | Belle's suitor in Beauty and the Beast |