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Women
- She looks after Bond’s petty cash (4,10) Miss Moneypenny
- Intellectuals with cold legs (13) bluestockings
- A metal PM (3,4,4) the iron lady
- Lost in a world of her own (5,2,10) Alice in Wonderland
- Chickens standing for election? (3,5) hen party
- L’aube (4,6) Dawn French
- Manufactured a face covering in this London district? (5,4) Maida Vale
- An author named after a car? (4,6) Jane Austen
- Someone you can bank on (3,3,4,2,12,6) the old lady of Threadneedle Street
- She should enter Bake-Off (3,5,2,6) the Queen of Hearts
- A fair woman? (3,10) Ann Widdecombe
- She packed her trunk (6,3,8) Nellie the Elephant
- A novel female airline (4,4) Jane Eyre
- She cooks outdoors in Australia (6) Barbie
- They don’t do school breakfasts (12) dinnerladies
- A bank that makes peace (5,6) olive branch
- Did she carry on at the castle? (7,7) Barbara Windsor
- Alert a cop about this Egyptian Queen (9) Cleopatra (anag)
- A French hotel (5,6) Paris Hilton
- A blonde joins naturists for breakfast (10,3,3,5,5) Goldilocks and the three bears
- Rescuing a redeeming feature (6,5) saving grace
- A pantomime mum (5,7) Widow Twankey
- The chief concubine gives lessons (12) headmistress
- She flies with all her jewellery (4,2,3,3,4,8) Lucy in the sky with diamonds
- She’s bubbling under (4,5) bain marie
- She’s nearly there but nowhere near (1,4,2,2,4,2,1,4) a miss is as good as a mile
- A Coventry naturist (4,6) Lady Godiva
- Quiet, mother! (4,3,4) Mum’s the word
- Perhaps her job helping children really sucks? (8,4) lollipop lady
- A relatively pleasant French resort (4) Nice
- Eve managed a deer around this Australian (4,4,7) Dame Edna Everage (anag)
- She’s got herself in a state (7) Georgia
- Fabric showing a parrot and a biblical lady? (9) polyester
- She sounds like a fruit, part of the body and a trick (7,5) Melania Trump
- Now put her about for a song (6,4) Uptown girl (part anag)
- The name of an idle server (4,5) lazy susan
- The onion queen (3,4,2,7) the lady of shalott
- For what we are about to receive, wow! (7,5) Amazing Grace
- Looks like she’s just coming! ((8) Beatrice
- A patient royal assistant (4,2,7) lady in waiting
- She doth know how to please Mr Shakespeare (4,8) Anne Hathaway
- Impress her by not running? (4,1,6,4) bowl a maiden over
- In charge of fencing? (12) postmistress
- Can you hear the vital silence of this French tart? (6,8) quiche Lorraine
- DIY feminists anthem (7,3,4,2,3,10) sisters are doin it for themselves
- Will madam be rich, working around a hotel? (11) chambermaid (anag)
- Listen, she’ll set your IOUs on fire (10) Bernadette
- What Victoria Wood would bend over backwards for (7,7) hostess trolley
- No butter for her in Springfield (5,7) Marge Simpson
- The sweary cocktail (6,4) bloody mary
- She complains about her smile (4,4) Mona Lisa
- Camilla’s instruction to Charles, we hear (5,3,3) never say die
- Does this vegetable give you green hands? (6,7) ladies fingers
- Yearning for South Vietnam (4,6) Miss Saigon
- Cockney incredulity (5,3,4,3,3,2) Would you Adam and Eve it
- Hers sounds like a fishy tale (3,6,7) the little mermaid
- Nil peace, Sirs, for this warrior (8,4) Princess Leia (anag)
- Falstaff’s plans are foiled by these feisty royal women (5,5,2,7) Merry Wives of Windsor
- She sounds like a bountiful angel (7,4,6) pennies from heaven
- Monthly pin-ups (8,5) calendar girls
- Too much happiness from one woman (9) overjoyed
- An attractive traffic warden? (6,4,5,4) lovely Rita meter maid
- Entitled to be mad (4,4) Lady Gaga
- She turned out more threads (8,5) spinning jenny
- Lovely couple of outlaws in Scotland? (6,3,5) Bonnie and Clyde
- Incomparable (5,2,7,4,1,4) There is nothing like a dame
- A gem of a furniture polish (4,3) Ruby Wax
- A poor shepherdess (6,2,4) Little Bo Peep
- Mary the magic dishwasher (5,9) fairy godmother
- Incoherent bloomer (8,4) rambling rose
- A martyr to geometry (4,2,3) Joan of Arc
- Sparkly buddies (8,3,1,5,4,6) diamonds are a girl’s best friend
- She’s thinking about it (6,5) wonder woman
- This fairy queen is one letter away from disaster (7) Titania
- He treats me or turns into a saint (6,6) Mother Teresa (anag)
- Sounds like a horse going up the aisle (9) bridleway
- Song that always greets Miss Parton (5,5) Hello Dolly
- She had no reverse gear (3,5,3,3,7) The lady’s not for turning
- Princess in a spin (9,5) Catherine wheel
- Endure a flight to get to vote (11) suffragette
- Her in-house fish (1,6,5,2,2,3,4) A woman’s place is in the home
- A tart in the House of Lords (4,8) Joan Bakewell
- She can waltz like the clappers! (5,2,3,4) belle of the ball
- One of a kind at breakfast (7,1) Special K
- She’s never at sea (8) landlady
- Did she put mint sauce on it? (4,3,1,6,4) Mary had a little lamb
- Is this dancer a frumpy USA girl? (5,4,5) sugar plum fairy (anag)
- A choice of nut trees? (5,5) witch hazel
- Why some delivery men will go to any lengths (7,3,4,5,4,4) because the lady loves Milk Tray
- A pirouette in a pudding? (4,7) Anna Pavlova
- Sounds like a woman taking a trolley to perdition (5,2,4,2,1,8) going to hell in a handcart
- An Italian songbird tends to the sick (8,11) Florence Nightingale
- A murderous spoilsport (7) killjoy
- East Anglian gals (3,7,6) the Norfolk broads
- The singing weapons dealer? (4,11) Joan Armatrading
- Aristocratic mash (7,8) Duchess potatoes
- Damn these bandages! (3,6,5) the mummy’s curse
- Three women in a Russian novel (4,8) Anna Karenina
- A parrot in hot water? (5,3,3,6,2) Polly put the kettle on
- A Scottish dog (6) lassie