Good try, how about more crossovers and less obscurity. Didn't like the homophones, there are too many.

Liked the theme and it is clever. Advise not to use precisely four women's names as they are too obviously a group. Also be careful setting the answers as I was once incorrectly marked wrong and onceincorrectly marked right when not entering an answer . The latter may be because you finished the answer with a comma. Hope that helps.

Thanks so much for the constructive comments. This is my first grid and I will have another go soon. I really enjoy this site !

good first effort but would agree with previous comments

People usually make the homophones have a theme. I got the flying women one marked as incorrect when I put aviators. Good grid though.

Didn't accept Fly as answer

you are all so nice, so, sorry, thot the homophone line was silly....