| ANE | With ___ '_' (How Miss Shirley of Green Gables spells her first name) |
| ANO | With ___ '_' (How #49-Down's answer begins) |
| ANNE | An audible "Miss Shirley" (4) |
| ANNEWITHANE | #28-Down's heroine Miss Shirley: wd. + wd. + wd. + letter |
| ANN | The way Miss Shirley doesn't spell her name |
| KESHA | "Tik Tok" singer who spells her name with a dollar sign |
| ABBYELLIOTT | Comedian whose name is the first two letters of the alphabet + an anagram of "little boy": 2 wds. (Theme answer: Her first name is a homophone of a religious building.) |
| ZED | Queen Elizabeth spells her name with one |
| KDLANG | Singer who spells her name in all lowercase letters |
| MURDERMOSTFOWL | How Miss Marple may describe the annual slaughter of turkeys? |
| CHER | Singer/actress known by her first name, part of 1960s duo with her then husband (4) |
| KYLIEJENNER | This reality TV star attempted to trademark her first name in 2015; Australian singer Minogue, who has the same first name, stopped her in court |
| CHAPPELLROAN | Pop star whose name is formed by a word meaning "become dry" + P + an anagram of "llanero": 2 wds. (Theme answer: Her first name is a homophone of a religious building.) |
| LIU | Actress Lucy whose last name sounds like the start of her first name |
| ENYA | Irish singer whose stage name comes from the pronunciation of her first name Eithne |
| ANOSE | By _ ___ (How the racehorse just barely came in first) |
| FROMBOTHSIDES | ___ ___ ___: how Joni Mitchell now sees the world, on her album Clouds (4,4,5) |
| LINES | ___ ___ How one gets the real truth of the story? (5,7,3,5) |
| READSBETWEENTHE | ___ ___How one gets the real truth of the story? (5,7,3,5) |
| ONEBYONE | How Miss America contestants are introduced |
