| EMMATHOMPSON | The Remains of the Day actress who played Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility: 2 wds. |
| WALTER | Actress whose film roles include Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (7,6) |
| HARRIET | Actress whose film roles include Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (7,6) |
| KATEWINSLET | Titanic actress who played Marianne Dashwood in 1995's Sense and Sensibility: 2 wds. |
| HALLEBERRY | "Die Another Day" actress who played Storm in 2000's "X-Men": 2 wds. |
| ALANRICKMAN | Die Hard actor who played Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility: 2 wds. |
| MARIANNE | Younger sister of Elinor Dashwood in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) |
| AUSTEN | Author who wrote about heroines including Emma Woodhouse and Elinor Dashwood in six major novels, since translated into some 40 languages (6) |
| WINSLET | Actress in Sense and Sensibility, The Reader, The Dressmaker, Blackbird, Ammonite and the forthcoming film Black Beauty as the voice of the title character (7) |
| EMMA | Forename of a heroine immortalised in a novel of the same name by the author who also created Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, Fanny Price and others (4) |
| THOMPSON | Emma -; actress and screenwriter who starred in Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually (8) |
| JENNIFER | ___ Garner Yes Day actress who received the 2022 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Award |
| GLENN | ___ Close Four Good Days actress who portrayed Nova Prime/Irani Rael in the 2014 film Guardians of the Galaxy |
| WILLOUGHBY | In Sense and Sensibility, the love interest who deserts Marianne for an heiress (10) |
| ELINOR | Eldest Dashwood daughter in "Sense and Sensibility" |
| JULIA | Mother's Day actress who negotiates George Clooney's safety in Money Monster, ___ Roberts (5) |
| BRANDON | The older man whose suit Marianne eventually accepts in Sense and Sensibility (7) |
| WISE | Actor who starred in Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson, whom he later married (4) |
| ANDRA | _ Day, actress who won a Golden Globe for playing Billie Holiday (5) |
| MARIANNEDASHWOOD | Sister of Elinor in Sense & Sensibility |
