| WESTWOOD | Vivienne ---, fashion designer made a dame in 2006 (8) |
| ZANDRARHODES | English fashion designer made a Dame in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours (6,6) |
| SHERATON | Furniture designer made a sort of horn seat (8) |
| AGNESB | French fashion designer made Chevalier of the Legion d'honneur in 2000 |
| THOMPSON | Emma -; actress who was made a Dame in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list (8) |
| HEPWORTH | Barbara ___, English sculptor made a Dame in 1965 |
| MYRAHESS | English pianist made a Dame in 1941 |
| VIENNESE | & 18D 1930 film version of a musical, starring Alexander Gray and Vivienne Segal (8,6) |
| DESIGNER | Perhaps Vivienne Westwood suit oddly gender fluid |
| SHEILA | ____ Hancock, actress born in 1933 and made a dame in 2021 (6) |
| ELLENTERRY | The actress, made a dame in 1925, who had a celebrated correspondence with George Bernard Shaw (5,5) |
| MAGGIESMITH | English actress, made a Dame in 1990, who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham in Downton Abbey |
| ZAHAHADID | Baghdad-born architect who received the Stirling Prize in 2010 and 2011 and was made a Dame in 2012 (4,5) |
| JOANCOLLINS | Actress made a Dame in 2015 |
| EMMATHOMPSON | Howards End actress who was made a Dame in 2018: 2 wds. |
| ANGELALANSBURY | Murder She Wrote actress who was made a Dame in 2014: 2 wds. |
| JULIEANDREWS | Mary Poppins actress who was made a Dame in 2000: 2 wds. |
| HODGE | Margaret ---, British Labour MP made a dame in 2015 (5) |
| FONTEYN | English ballerina made a Dame in 1956 (7) |
| LAINE | Cleo _, musician made a Dame in 1997 (5) |
