| LORETTA | Forename of the American "coal miner's daughter" country singer (7) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the discoverer of the isochronism of a pendulum who improved upon the design of the refracting telescope to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter (7) |
| ELEANOR | The forename of the wife of King Henry II (7) |
| EUGENIE | Forename of the younger sister of Princess Beatrice of York (7) |
| AMERIGO | Forename of the navigator Vespucci, after whom the continent of America was named (7) |
| STANLEY | Forename of the father of the Prime Minister (7) |
| THERESA | Forename of the Prime Minister preceding Boris Johnson (7) |
| ROBERTO | Forename of the Panamanian world champion boxer Duran (7) |
| BIOPICS | "Coal Miner's Daughter" and "What's Love Got to Do with It" |
| DANGELO | Actress Beverly who played Patsy Cline in "Coal Miner's Daughter" |
| COLLIER | Coal-miner, coal-carrying ship (7) |
| PITPROP | Support for coal miners? (7) |
| TWEEDS | Pretty daughter's country clothing (6) |
| METHANE | Coal miner's concern |
| SISSY | Winner of the Best Actress Oscar for the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter (5,6) |
| SPACEK | Winner of the Best Actress Oscar for the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter (5,6) |
| LORETTALYNN | This queen of country music, a coal miner's daughter, died in Oct. at 90 (7,4) |
| LYNN | American country music singer-songwriter whose autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, was made into an Oscar-winning film |
| APTED | British film director of Coal Miner's Daughter and the Up! documentary series, Michael ... |
| SISSYSPACEK | Oscar-winning star of the 1981 musical biopic Coal Miner's Daughter (5,6) |
