| LAINEY | With 33-Across, she won the CMA for Female Vocalist of the Year on Wednesday |
| STRESS | Make clear it's no song for female vocalist (6) |
| SONGSTRESSES | Boy George's first strains for female vocalists (12) |
| GARTHBROOKS | The River singer who won the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year seven times: 2 wds. |
| LASHANA | With 33-Across: she will play the British intelligence officer tasked with finding and eliminating 10-Across |
| KENNYCHESNEY | Come Over singer who won the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year four times: 2 wds. |
| ALANJACKSON | Country Boy singer who won the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year three times: 2 wds. |
| BLAKESHELTON | His God's Country won the 2019 CMA for Single of the Year: 2 wds. |
| MARENMORRIS | Her Girl won the 2019 CMA for Album of the Year: 2 wds. |
| GLENN | With 33-Across she played physician Sarah Cooper in The Big Chill |
| SHELLEY | With 37-Across, she won two Best Supporting Actress Oscars, for "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Pat |
| MILLIEBOBBY | Shown, with 33-Across, she's Eleven on "Stranger Things": 2 wds. |
| EVAMARIESAINT | For her career debut in 59-Across, she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress |
| GREER | With 15-Across: she won Best Actress for 1942's "Mrs. Miniver" -- then delivered a 5 minute, 30 second acceptance speech, an Oscars record that lasted until this past weekend |
| MIRANDALAMBERT | "Tin Man" singer who won Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2018 Academy of Country Music Awards: 2 wds. |
| CMA | Org. that named Kacey Musgraves its 2019 Female Vocalist of the Year |
| CLARK | Who was the bestselling British female vocalist of the 1960s? (6,5) |
| PETULA | Who was the bestselling British female vocalist of the 1960s? (6,5) |
| CMAS | Blake Shelton won five of them in a row for Male Vocalist of the Year, briefly |
| ONTHEGO | Busy for endless periods of the year on self-image (2.3.2) |
