| LESBAXTER | Bandleader who had a hit with "Unchained Melody" in 1955 |
| RIGHTEOUSBROTHERS | US duo with hit "Unchained Melody" in 1965 and 1990 (9,8) |
| KAYKYSER | *Bandleader who had a "Kollege of Musical Knowledge" |
| FINAL | The last in a series of something such as acts in a play, exams in a curriculum, letters in a word or games in a tournament; or, the concluding pitch of a modal melody in music (5) |
| GHOST | A spectre or spirit; a person's soul; semblance; a faint trace, glimmer or vestige; or, a 1990 film featuring the song Unchained Melody (5) |
| STIACCIATO | Relief as Unchained Melody covers number one in Italy and later India |
| BSIDES | "Revolution" and "Unchained Melody," for two |
| BSIDE | The Righteous Brothers' "Unchained Melody," originally |
| JEROME | Robson & ____, ex-pop duo noted for their 1995 cover version of Unchained Melody (6) |
| THEME | A principal melody in a symphony or sonata (5) |
| BASS | Singer who rarely gets the melody in a choir |
| RIGHTEOUS | Unchained Melody group, The ___ Brothers |
| LOVESONG | "Unchained Melody," for one |
| LES | "Unchained Melody" composer Baxter |
| SWAN | It's depicted by a cello melody in "The Carnival of the Animals" |
| INTUNE | Find a popular melody in harmony (2,4) |
| CHANT | A simple melody in which words are sung to each note |
| NOTATE | Write out, as a melody in one's head |
| OBOE | Woodwind with the "swan" melody in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" |
| NIAGARA | A Hindu melody, in reverse, falls between two states |
