| AFOG | "There's ___ upon L.A." (opening line to the Beatles' "Blue Jay Way") |
| IMAY | "... or ___ be asleep" ("Blue Jay Way" lyric) |
| OUTLET | Shop a€“ opening (6) |
| RIOT | "Did you see the stylish kids in the ___ ", opening line to The Libertines' "Time For Heroes" (4) |
| SAFFRON | I'm just mad about _": opening line to the song Mellow Yellow (7) |
| MAD | "I've been ___ for f**king years", opening line to "Speak To Me" on The Dark Side Of The Moon (3) |
| ORIOLE | One may be seen in the same park as a blue jay ... or the same ballpark as a Blue Jay |
| NOISE | "Please could you stop the _ _ _ _ _, I'm trying to get some rest," opening line to Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" (5) |
| RIO | "Moving on the floor now, babe/You 're a bird of paradise", opening line to 1982 hit (3) |
| NORMA | "Goodbye, ___ Jean..." (opening line to "Candle in the Wind") |
| ALLORNOGHING | "I thought you'd listen to my reasoning", opening line to 1966 No 1 (3-2-7) |
| ROSESARERED | Opening line to a typical Valentine's Day poem (11) |
| ONE | "Is it getting better or do you feel the same", opening line to U2 song (3) |
| TAVENER | Signed to The Beatles record label Apple in the 1960s and knighted in 2000, a favourite composer of the Prince of Wales who wrote Song for Athene (7) |
| THE | "I pulled in to Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead", opening line to 1968 hit (3-6) |
| WEIGHT | "I pulled in to Nazareth, was feeling 'bout half past dead", opening line to 1968 hit (3-6) |
| REVOLUTION | What you say you want, according to the Beatles, when we all want to change the world |
| YESTERDAY | 2019 Danny Boyle film starring Himesh Patel as a musician introducing a changed world to the Beatles |
| DIESE | "O Freunde, nicht ___ Tone! (opening line to Beethoven's Ninth) |
| INTOMYARMS | "I don't believe in an interventionist God", opening line to Nick Cave song (4-2-4) |
