| HIRD | Thora ___, BAFTA Best Actress award winner for Talking Heads: A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (4) |
| JACK | Gentleman ___, BAFTA nominated period drama (4) |
| MACDONALD | Kelly _, BAFTA nominee for No Country For Old Men (9) |
| BIRCH | Thora _, starred in American Beauty (5) |
| BENNETT | Actor and playwright whose monologues Talking Heads originally included Patricia Routledge in A Lady of Letters and Thora Hird in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (7) |
| CHER | 1987 Best Actress award winner |
| ONCE | ___ in a Lifetime, 1981 hit for Talking Heads (4) |
| OBIE | Lynn Redgrave won one for "Talking Heads" |
| TINA | Weymouth who played bass for Talking Heads |
| BRENDABLETHYN | Best Actress award winner at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival (6,7) |
| SIENNAMILLER | Actress nominated for Bafta and Golden Globe best actress awards for her role as Tippi Hedren in the 2012 TV film The Girl |
| TAKEMETOTHERIVER | First Top 40 hit for Talking Heads, and a hint to the starts of the theme answers |
| ANUNMARRIEDWOMAN | Oscar-nominated film for which Jill Clayburgh won the Best Actress award at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival (2,9,5) |
| BERYL | ... Reid won the 1967 Tony Best Actress award for her role in The Killing of Sister George (5) |
| MICHELLE | ____ Yeoh, Malaysian actress who won the Best Actress award at the 2023 Oscars (8) |
| TUTIN | Dorothy ____ won her first Evening Standard best actress award for playing Viola in the 1960 RSC production of Twelfth Night |
| VANESSAREDGRAVE | First double winner of the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress award (1966 and 1969) |
| AMERICA | Country where one gets stuck into in a cream cracker (7) |
| MADONNA | She won the Best Actress award for her role in Evita (7) |
| SOFAR | Right under the settee up to now |
