Answer:

dame

Answer	Crossword Clue
DAME	British title
DAME	Fonteyn's title
DAME	Title for Myra Hess

DAME	"There is nothin' like a ...."
DAME	Honored woman
DAME	Noble woman, in the U.K., or woman, not-so-nobly, in the U.S.
DAME	Agatha Christie's title
DAME	Title for Judi Dench
DAME	Paragon in a "South Pacific" song
DAME	Woman of the knight?
DAME	Knight's lady

DAME	Title for actress May Whitty
DAME	Margot Fonteyn's title
DAME	Title for Agatha Christie
DAME	Actress May Whitty, for one
DAME	Knight counterpart
DAME	"South Pacific" song subject
DAME	"There Is Nothin' Like a .."
DAME	Title for Kiri Te Kanawa

DAME	Titled woman
DAME	Pulp figure
DAME	Helen Mirren's title
DAME	Knight's wife
DAME	Barry Humphries, a.k.a. ... Edna Everage
DAME	Nellie Melba's title
DAME	Knight's "better half"
DAME	Knight's counterpart

DAME	Judi Dench, for one
DAME	Matron
DAME	Edith Evans or Edna Everage
DAME	Lady of the knight?
DAME	Title for Edith Evans
DAME	Title not offered to men
DAME	Judi Dench title
DAME	Notre ... University

DAME	Title for Margot Fonteyn
DAME	Lady's title
DAME	Titled lady
DAME	There's nothing like one, in song
DAME	Sir's counterpart