| Lively folk dance |
| Lively French social dance |
| Japanese dance-drama |
| Spanish dance |
| Avoidance |
| Overabundance |
| A square, à la Sinclair Lewis |
| Computer pioneer Lovelace (woo-hoo, women in tech!) |
| Popular women's magazine |
| Station 19" star who says her experience as a salsa dancer helps her perform stunts: 3 wds. |
| Square dancer's neckwear |
| Showy birds at the dance? |
| All plane attendants in attendance |
| Square dancer's back |
| Little Women" surname |
| Spanish dances |
| Admired women |
| Whatever it takes ... as hinted at in the arrangements of black squares around the circled letters |
| Dancer's co-worker. |
| Square root of cuatro |
| Actor who played an exotic dancer in 2012's "Magic Mike": 2 wds. |
| Creatures infesting the proverbial dancer's pants |
| Rhythmic dance |
| Phenomena of Latin-American dances. |
| Products memorably advertised by silhouetted dancers |
| Sailors' dances |
| Women, in old-fashioned parlance |
| Type of dance by Ruth St. Denis. |
| Dances in waltz time |
| Pinhead dancers? |