| GALVESTON | Texas city where Tina Knowles was born and raised, as discussed in 14-Across |
| NELSON | Lancashire town in which antiques expert Eric Knowles was born (6) |
| MATRIARCH | New memoir from Tina Knowles, mother of Beyonce and Solange |
| ASTAR | What Beyonce Knowles was wishing on in the Roll Bounce song (1,4) |
| ROOTS | They're in the land where one was born and raised |
| DYLAN | US singer/songwriter and Nobel laureate (surname) who was born and raised in Minnesota (5) |
| FINGERLAKES | New York region where Millard Fillmore was born and raised |
| BETTEMIDLER | Wind Beneath My Wings singer who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| AULIICRAVALHO | Moana voice actress who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| MICHELLEWIE | ___ West LPGA star who was born and raised in Hawaii: 2 wds. |
| TURINITALY | Sonia Gandhi, was born and raised outside of this European city that hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics |
| IOWA | State where Tom Arnold was born and raised |
| PADUA | Immortalised in The Taming of the Shrew and a play by Oscar Wilde, city in Veneto where Livy was born and Galileo taught at its university (5) |
| SODAFOUNTAIN | In the USA where Tina and Una may get foods and a milk shake (4,8) |
| UVA | Where Tina Fey got her undergrad degree in drama in 1992 |
| DELFT | City in the Netherlands noted for pottery, where Johannes Vermeer was born and Pieter de Hooch lived (5) |
| PRESTON | City in Lancashire where Richard Arkwright was born and developed his spinning frame (7) |
| ROBERT | ___ the Bruce; believed to have been born and raised in what was Turnberry Castle, the king of Scots depicted in Braveheart and Outlaw King (6) |
| DALLAS | Texas city where JFK was assassinated in 1963 |
| LAREDO | Texas city where Tom DeLay was born |
