| MARIAMARIA | Santana hit about a woman who reminds the singer of "a West Side story" |
| CHOIRSTALL | One of the benches for the singers of a church or cathedral (10) |
| HIBERNIA | Hotel on foreign peninsula around point reminds the Romans of Ireland (8) |
| REMEMBRANCER | One who reminds; officer of exchequer (12) |
| PROMPTER | One who reminds (8) |
| MEMENTO | It reminds the chaps to follow me (7) |
| METHEDRINE | Remind the Easterner to end taking such a nervous stimulant |
| SAVAGES | ?You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not _____?: 20 across (7) |
| RIO | Duran Duran hit about a woman who "dances on the sand" |
| PRETTY | A West Side Story song becomes a movie (1,4,6) |
| IFEEL | A West Side Story song becomes a movie (1,4,6) |
| MARIA | "The most beautiful sound I ever heard," in a "West Side Story" song |
| MANDY | Barry Manilow hit about a woman who "gave without taking" |
| RIHANNA | "There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer." She won a Gra |
| AMERICA | Where "skyscrapers bloom" and "Cadillacs zoom," in a "West Side Story" song |
| SHARKS | Financial swindlers in a West Side Story gang (6) |
| SPADES | "The Queen of ___" (1949 movie about a woman who sells her soul to the devil to always win at cards) |
| THELADYINRED | *1986 hit about a woman wearing a colorful dress |
| CARLYSANGELS | Movie about a woman who runs a private investigation agency |
| ELEANORRIGBY | Beatles song about a woman who "lives in a dream": 2 wds. |
