| ATOWN | "In ___ called malice, yeah" (The Jam lyric that's almost the proper title) |
| NAMES | Proper -; titles or designations studied in onomastics (5) |
| SHELOVESYOU | "____, yeah, yeah, yeah" (The Beatles) |
| WEGETIT | "Yeah, yeah, the joke's on us" |
| TOWN | The Jam's was called Malice (4) |
| THEJAM | Band that had a hit with Town Called Malice (3,3) |
| HOKEYPOKEY | Group dance song with the repeated lyric "that's what it's all about" |
| TWIX | Chocolate bar with a name that's almost the same as a breakfast cereal's |
| SIDESHOWS | Entertainments aboard ship - that's almost the way to do it |
| ELM | Tree that's almost the name of a ticklish "Sesame Street" Muppet |
| PARONYM | Linguistic term for a word that's almost the same as another word, like "affect" and "effect" |
| ABC | 1970 hit with the lyric "That's how easy love can be" |
| IDCRY | 1967 Stevie Wonder title lyric that's followed by "If you leave me sad and blue" |
| ITALO | Author Calvino with a name that's almost the same as a country |
| OFTHEEISING | * Patriotic lyric that's also a Gershwin title |
| THRUM | Play monotonously, that's almost the spirit (5) |
| ALAMODE | A hit lyric that's fashionable |
| MERCHANTNAVY | Canadian ___ ___, called 'The Life Line of the World' in wartime |
| SNAKE | The ___ called the Leimadophis epinephelus has some resistance to the dart frog's poison |
| ORDERS | Last ___, called near 11pm at the Woolpack in the village (6) |
