| BLANCHE | ___ DuBois, lead female character in the Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" |
| DUBOIS | Blanche, character in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (6) |
| ROOF | What completes the title of Cat on a Hot Tin _, the Tennessee Williams play? (4) |
| HEROINE | Lead female character (7) |
| STELLAKOWALSKI | Younger sister of Blanche DuBois in the 1947 Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (6,8) |
| STANLEY | Brother-in-law of Blanche Dubois in the 1947 Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (7,8) |
| KOWALSKI | Brother-in-law of Blanche Dubois in the 1947 Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire (7,8) |
| STELLA | Teddy Tahu Rhodes wailed this name in the Previn opera of Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire |
| BLANCHEDUBOIS | Stanley Kowalski's sister-in-law in Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire (7,6) |
| NAMED | Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar ... Desire |
| MARLONBRANDO | Actor who played Stanley Kowalski in the 1951 film adaptation of the play A Streetcar Named Desire (6,6) |
| MARLA | The lead female role in the musical West Side Story (5) |
| MARIA | The lead female role in the musical West Side Story (5) |
| RUTH | The sorrow of a female character in the OT (4) |
| KATHY | Lead female role in "Singin' in the Rain" |
| KANGA | Only female character in the Winnie the Pooh books (5) |
| PADUCAH | City in Kentucky on the Ohio River at the mouth of the Tennessee River (7) |
| THEBIRDCAGE | 1996 film in which Robin Williams plays a drag club owner, and a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| MARILYN | Michelle Williams plays a Hollywood legend in My Week with ___ (7) |
| FONTAINE | Lead female star in Hitchcock's 1940 classic Rebecca (last name only) (8) |
