| COLEPORTER | US composer-lyricist whose musicals include Du Barry Was a Lady and Panama Hattie |
| PORTER | US composer lyricist whose musicals include Du Barry Was a Lady and Panama Hattie (4,6) |
| COLE | US composer lyricist whose musicals include Du Barry Was a Lady and Panama Hattie (4,6) |
| LORENZ | American lyricist whose musicals co-written with composer Richard Rodgers include A Connecticut Yankee (1921) and Pal Joey (1940) (6) |
| HART | American lyricist whose musicals co-written with composer Richard Rodgers include A Connecticut Yankee (1921) and Pal Joey (1940) (4) |
| GERSHWIN | Surname of US composer/ lyricist brothers George and Ira |
| LAWRENCE | Author whose novel, based on a lady and her secret lover, was the subject of a landmark obscenity trial in 1960, 30 years after his death (8) |
| CAMPION | Jane -; screenwriter whose productions include The Portrait of a Lady and Top of the Lake (7) |
| SHES | Lyrical lead-in to "a rainbow," "a lady" and "a maniac" |
| JAMES | The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove author whose literary friends included Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson (5) |
| POTAGE | French word for a thick soup such as creme du Barry or ribollita (6) |
| LOESSER | "Luck Be a Lady" composer/lyricist |
| IRMA | A lady and a fine gentleman, in turn (4) |
| MOROCCO | Country whose musical styles include nuba, melhun, and gharnati |
| FREDASTAIRE | Dancer and actor whose musical films include Swing Time |
| RAP | Word whose musical sense was added to Merriam-Webster dictionaries in 1986 |
| FRAGONARD | French painter who painted 'The Progress of Love' for Madame du Barry |
| DONNA | She's a lady - and no mistake |
| AFFAIREDECUR | A Lady-and-the-Tramp type of relationship? |
| DELAYS | Point to a lady and it puts her off |
