Crossword Clue:

FORELADY a woman who supervises workers

AnswerCrossword Clue
NIGHTSWorkers who get a late start?
ELIOTGeorge who was a woman
MISTRESSWoman who heads a household
YOGINIWoman who practices a discipline
SEERESSWoman who usually has a ball
DIVAWoman who can carry a tune
PEARLYWHITETEETH"I met a woman who has ... ..."
ELIOTAuthor George who was a woman
LEDAWoman who was seduced by a swan
VANNAWoman who has a way with words?
UNIPARAA woman who has borne one child
DOYENNESWoman who are senior members of a group
ARTHURCharacter who sings "How to Handle a Woman"
ANNAPOLISHERWoman who may take a shine to you?
ANOLD"There was ... woman who lived in a shoe . . . "
SLEDGEPercy who sang "When a Man Loves a Woman"
PERCYSledge who sang "When a Man Loves a Woman"
ELEANORRIGBYTitle woman of song who "lives in a dream"
SADIEBeatles title woman who "made a fool of everyone"
ONO"Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" singer
CARLYSANGELSMovie about a woman who runs a private investigation agency
WILDEOATESAuthors who collaborated on "A Zombie Woman of No Importance"?
SERIALMOMMovie about a woman who can't stop going into labor?
TUSSAUDA woman who made wax statues, too, so we hear (7)
ELAINESTRITCHActress who won a 2002 Tony for her one-woman musical memoir
LOLAKinks girl who "walks like a woman and talks like a man"
UNDERFOOTStatus of the children of the old woman who lived in a shoe.
WILLIAMHURT"Kiss of the Spider Woman" actor who shares a name with a prince
MAUVE"Never trust a woman who wears ..." (line from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
PERCY"When a Man Loves a Woman" singer Sledge who died in April 2015
SEVENSEATGALWoman who reserved spots for herself and half a dozen friends at the rodeo?
TRUTHSojourner ... (women's-rights activist who asked "Ain't I a woman?" in a famous 1851 speech)
LOLACharmer who "walks like a woman and talks like a man," in a 1970 hit
ANNMEYERSBasketball Hall-of-Famer who was the first woman to sign an N.B.A. contract
YOULOSECalvin Coolidge's reputed reply to a woman who bet she could get more than two words out of him
ANON"I would venture to guess that .., who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman": Woolf
JENNYWoman in a 1982 hit who can be reached using the starts of the answers to the starred clues