| Knockout |
| Sleep ___ |
| Loveliness |
| Pulchritude |
| Beast's love |
| Rose variety |
| Age follower? |
| Pageant winner |
| Age before ___ |
| Kind of parlor |
| Beast's beloved |
| Truth, to Keats |
| __ and the Beast |
| Drugstore section |
| Miss America, e.g. |
| Miss Universe, e.g. |
| She fell for a beast |
| Kind of queen or sleep |
| A must for Miss America. |
| Emma Watson, in a 2017 film |
| Figure in a classic fairy tale |
| It's in the eye of the beholder |
| Wilco & Billy Bragg "Hesitating ___ |
| It "provoketh thieves sooner than gold," per the Bard |
| American ___" (1999 movie about, in many ways, what it means to be an American) |
| American ___" (1999 midlife-crisis drama starring Kevin Spacey that won the Best Picture Oscar) |