| BESSIESMITH | "Empress of the Blues" who first recorded in 1923 |
| ETTAJAMES | American singer who first recorded the song I'd Rather Go Blind in 1967 (4,5) |
| DENISELASALLE | Singer called "Queen of the Blues" who recorded "Trapped by a Thing Called Love" |
| MARAINEY | "Mother of the Blues" who sang with Satchmo |
| BESSIE | ____ Smith, U.S. blues singer born in 1894 nicknamed the 'Empress of the Blues' (6) |
| SMITH | Bessie known as the "Empress of the Blues" |
| IMPEACHMENT | Procedure against a government official in the UK first recorded in 1376 that last occurred in 1806 |
| PUNT | A flat-bottomed boat; a bet; or, first recorded in the rules of football at Rugby School in 1845, a long kick (4) |
| ASPIDISTRA | The Biggest ____ In The World, comic song by Gracie Fields first recorded in 1938 (10) |
| SHEPHERDSARISE | Christmas carol first recorded in a 19th-century manuscript from the parish of Winterbome Zelston in Dorset (9,5) |
| JOSEPHINEDEBEAUHARNAIS | The first wife of Napoleon I and the first Empress of the French |
| PERSEID | One of a group of shooting stars which appear each year around 10th August; first recorded in 36AD (7) |
| LASAGNA | Italian pasta dish, first recorded in the 13th century, named from the Latin for 'cooking pot' (7) |
| ETONMESS | English dessert, first recorded in 1893, apocryphally created by the accidental dropping of a strawberry pavlova (4,4) |
| OOHLALA | Rod Stewart hit of 1998 first recorded in 1973 |
| THETEARSOFACLOWN | Song by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles first recorded in 1967 |
| ALLSFAIR | ___ ___ in love and war": saying first recorded in 1850 (4,4) |
| SANATORY | An apostle's first recorded in story of healing (8) |
| SAVETHELASTDANCEFORME | Popular song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, first recorded in 1960 by Ben E King and The Drifters |
| GEORGIA | ____ on My Mind, song first recorded in 1930 that became a signature tune of Ray Charles (7) |
