| CORIGAUFF | Teenage tennis sensation who shot to fame at Wimbledon and whose nickname is Coco (4,5) |
| RIMES | Country singer who shot to fame at only eight years old, LeAnn _ (5) |
| EVITAPERON | Actress who was Argentina's First Lady, 1946-1952, and whose nickname supplanted her real first name, Eva (5,5) |
| ASTAIRE | Dancer taking a step to fame at last |
| RADUCANU | Emma, British teenage tennis player who won the women's singles title at the 2021 U.S. Open (8) |
| TROYE | South African-born Australian singer and YouTube sensation who plays Gary in Boy Erased, ___ Sivan (5) |
| ESSEX | David _, 70s pop sensation who had a brief stint in Walford in 2011 (5) |
| BARNABAS | SENSATION WHO ARRIVED IN 1967 |
| NATARAJAN | SRH's yorker specialist who shot to prominence in the 2020 IPL |
| ROBINHOOD | His band shot to fame where Isherwood lost his head (5,4) |
| SALISBURY | Village in New Brunswick whose nickname is, "Home of the Silver Fox" |
| LANDSCAPE | Painting wins international award: fame at last! |
| ERNIEFORD | 'Sixteen Tons' singer whose nickname is his birth state |
| NETANYAHU | Benjamin ********* , Israeli politician whose nickname is Bibi (9) |
| IANBOTHAM | Retired test cricketer whose nickname is "Beefy" (3,6) |
| YPSILANTI | Michigan city whose nickname is pronounced "IP-see" |
| OAKLEY | Name of the girl who shot to fame from Yale, OK? |
| MISCHA | Actress who shot to fame on The O.C., ... Barton (6) |
| ALI | - MacGraw, US actress who shot to fame when she appeared in the 1970 motion picture Love Story (3) |
| EDEN | Scantily clad, who shot to fame in the 60s TV sitcom I Dream of Jeannie? (7,4) |
