| TRACYSHAW | Actress best known for playing hairdresser Maxine Peacock (formerly Maxine Heavey) in Coronation Street |
| HONG | Maxine ___ Kingston, "China Men" author |
| REP | Maxine Waters, for one: abbr. |
| ROBY | Maxine ___; role on "CSI: Vegas" |
| PEAKE | Maxine ___, Silk star (5) |
| ENVOGUE | Cindy Herron, Terry Ellis, Maxine Jones |
| CONG | Where Charles Rangel and Maxine Waters serve: Abbr. |
| FRAMED | Set up ___ like Hollyoaks" Maxine Minniver was by Patrick Blake! (6) |
| NIKKI | __ Sanderson, actress who plays Maxine Minniver, sister of the departed Mitzeee, in Hollyoaks (5) |
| SILK | Criminal law drama starring Maxine Peake and Rupert Penry-Jones (4) |
| AVAGARDNER | Maxine Faulk in the 1964 movie, The Night of the Iguana (3,7) |
| DALY | Maxine in Judging Amy and Mary Beth Lacey in Cagney & Lacey, Tyne ... (4) |
| ABUSE | Type of mistreatment that Maxine Minniver is currently enduring at the hands of Patrick Blake in Hollyoaks (5) |
| SIENNA | She ran over her father and framed Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks (6,5) |
| MINNIVER | Maxine __, technically the step-grandmother of (8) |
| SANDERSON | Nikki __, actress who plays Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks (9) |
| DENNIS | Lad who's been trying to help abused Maxine Minniver in Hollyoaks (6,6) |
| MINNIE | __, the name of Maxine Minniver's baby, who has Down's syndrome, in Hollyoaks (6) |
| SHAW | Tracy ?, actress who played Maxine Peacock in ITV soap Coronation Street (4) |
| TYNEDALY | Lacey in Cagney & Lacey and Maxine Gray in Judging Amy (4,4) |