| STATION | "The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains" - first line of song by The Jam (4,2,3,4,7,2,8) |
| ATMIDNIGHT | "The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains" - first line of song by The Jam (4,2,3,4,7,2,8) |
| THETUBE | "The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains" - first line of song by The Jam (4,2,3,4,7,2,8) |
| DOWNIN | "The distant echo of faraway voices boarding faraway trains" - first line of song by The Jam (4,2,3,4,7,2,8) |
| HEIGHHO | Start of song by the Seven Dwarfs |
| GROUNDCONTROLTOMAJORTOM | First line of song has stray dog run direct to large cat (6,7,2,5,3) |
| BOYS | Title of songs by The Shirelles, Britney Spears, and Charli XCX |
| SURAT | City marking one end of the bullet train's first leg. (5) |
| DEMEANOUR | Circuitous route - intend to replace train's first carriage |
| ETON | The ____ Rifles, song by The Jam that was a hit in 1979 (4) |
| MCDERMID | Val ___, author of the novels Blue Genes and The Distant Echo (8) |
| VALMCDERMID | Author of the novels Blue Genes and The Distant Echo (3,8) |
| ALLMODCONS | The third studio album by the Jam. featuring the song Down in the Tube Station at Midnight (3,3,4) |
| MALICE | Town Called ___: song by The Jam whose title is a pun on a 1950 Nevil Shute novel (6) |
| GOING | - - - Underground, song by The Jam (5) |
| APOLICEMANSLOTISNOTAHAPPYONE | This line of song may explain the down beat (1,10,3,2,3,1,5,3) |
| AIRCONDITIONER | Maybe fan of song by One Direction desperately short of energy (3-11) |
| FRIDAY | Day featuring in the titles of songs by Katy Perry and The Cure (6) |
| DAVID | 1967 song by the Kinks covered by the Jam in 1978 as a double A-side single, along with 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street (5,5) |
| WATTS | 1967 song by the Kinks covered by the Jam in 1978 as a double A-side single, along with 'A' Bomb in Wardour Street (5,5) |
