| STEVIENICKS | Uncredited, Prince co-wrote her 1983 hit "Stand Back" |
| KELLYCLARKSON | Christina Aguilera co-wrote her single "Miss Independent" |
| PATBENATAR | This singer can be seen fist-bumping a dancer in the video to her 1983 hit "Love Is a Battlefield" |
| MARTIKA | Prince wrote her Top Ten hit "Love...Thy Will Be Done" |
| DIAN | And 30 20th Century American primatologist famous for her studies of gorilla groups, documented in her 1983 book Gorillas In The Mist (4,6) |
| FOSSEY | 20th Century American primatologist famous for her studies of gorilla groups, documented in her 1983 book Gorillas In The Mist (4,6) |
| CHAKA | ____ Khan, singer noted for her 1983 song with Rufus, Ain't Nobody (5) |
| KING | Benjamin Earl ___, singer and co-composer of the 1961 hit Stand By Me (4) |
| BENEKING | Singer with the 1961 and 1986 hit Stand by Me: 3 wds. |
| RACHELPLATTEN | Singer with the 2015 hit Stand by You: 2 wds. |
| REM | Band with the 1989 hit Stand |
| WYNETTE | Tammy ___, singer of the 1975 country hit Stand By Your Man (7) |
| WELDON | Fay, English writer noted for her 1983 novel The Life And Loves Of A She-Devil (6) |
| JESSICA | Actress St. Clair who wrote her real-life cancer scare into her USA sitcom "Playing House" |
| PLATH | Poet and novelist of whom Elizabeth Hardwick wrote, "Her fate and her themes are hardly separate and both are singularly terrible" |
| OPRAH | Paul Simon once wrote her a theme song |
| ROTOR | Wrote her we heard to keep it ticking over (5) |
| ANNEX | "Secret ___" (where Anne Frank wrote her diary) |
| RICHARDLOVELACE | He wrote her cold cavalier off (7,8) |
| CHARLOTTERAMPLING | English actress who wrote her 2015 autobiography in French |
