| KIRI | New Zealand operatic soprano born in 1944 (4,8) |
| TEKANAWA | New Zealand operatic soprano born in 1944 (4,2,6) |
| CALLAS | Maria, operatic soprano born in New York City (6) |
| CABALLE | Montserrat ___, Spanish operatic soprano born in 1933 (7) |
| MONTSERRAT | Spanish operatic soprano born in 1933 (10,7) |
| NILSSON | Birgit, Swedish operatic soprano born in 1918 (7) |
| LUCIAPOPP | Slovak operatic soprano born in 1939 (5,4) |
| KIRITEKANAWA | Soprano born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron in 1944 (4,2,6) |
| LOTT | Felicity ___, soprano born in Cheltenham in 1947 who debuted at the English National Opera in 1975 ( |
| MELBA | Nellie ---, Australian operatic soprano born Helen Porter Mitchell (5) |
| SCHWARZKOPF | Elisabeth, German lyric soprano born in 1915 (11) |
| HAMMOND | Name an Australian soprano, born in NZ, Dame Joan ... (7) |
| EWING | Maria, American mezzo-soprano born in 1950 (5) |
| RASKIN | Judith *****, US lyric soprano born in 1928 (6) |
| PEACHMELBA | Dessert named after the Australian operatic soprano born Helen Porter Mitchell (5,5) |
| LUCAS | United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944). |
| LEAKEY | Richard ___, Kenyan anthropologist born in 1944 (6) |
| RANULPH | ___ Fiennes, British adventurer and pioneering polar explorer born in 1944 (7) |
| LEONARD | ******* Slatkin, conductor and composer born in 1944 (7) |
| BRENDA | ____ Lee, U.S. singer born in 1944 nicknamed Little Miss Dynamite (6) |
