| GODHELPTHECHILD | Title that Toni Morrison said she was "forced" to use for her last novel |
| ELIOT | "Daniel Deronda" (1876) was her last novel |
| HOMIE | Pet name Marge Simpson uses for her husband |
| MAID | Sounds like she was forced to do the dirty work (4) |
| MADGE | She was forced to hold the note (5) |
| AYESHA | Celeb chef (see 12-Across for her last name) who gave birth to baby #4 in May, as she and her husband revealed on Instagram on Sunday |
| CONSTRAINED | Forced to use corn instead (11) |
| MADETOMEASURE | Is forced to use a tape if it's not off the peg (4,2,7) |
| PROUD | "They said she was too good for him; She was haughty, ... and chic; But Ernie got his cocoa there; Three times every week"; Benny Hill was Ernie, the fastest milkman in the West |
| LIE | An untruth, such as that told by Kirsty Branning to Max when she said she was pregnant in EastEnders (3) |
| LOLITA | About whom Nabokov said "She was like the composition of a beautiful puzzle - its composition and it |
| GARLAND | American film star, who said she was 'born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot', d. 1969 (7) |
| ALIBIED | Said, "She was with me all day," say |
| COSTARICA | In a true statement on Would I Lie to You? Sara Pascoe said she visited ____, thinking she was travelling to Spain |
| GRETAGARBO | Actress who said she "wanted to be let alone"; she retired for good at age 36 |
| BOWLINGALLEY | ...Later on, she said she wanted to get the ball rolling, so she scheduled another meeting at a... |
| EXODUS | Movie theme that Arnold Schwarzenegger used to use for posing! (6) |
| SISYPHUS | In Greek mythology, a king who was forced to roll a large boulder to the top of a hill, only for it to roll back when he neared the top (8) |
| MADESENSE | Was forced to distinguish, but it was the right thing to do (4,5) |
| LENA | Dunham who was forced to find a new home for her beloved rescue dog Lamby |
