Possible Clues:

• Woman who has lost her husband
• Golfer's nonplaying wife, facetiously
• Black spider
• One missing partner from north going west in bay, maybe
• John Irving's 'A ___ for One Year'
• Wife, one attending function with dowager
• Typesetting no-no
• One who's husband is dead
• Lehar operetta ''The Merry ___''
• Word with golf or grass