| LIDA | "___ Rose" ("The Music Man" song) |
| TILL | "___ There Was You" ("The Music Man" song covered by The Beatles) |
| SOMEONE | "Goodnight, My ___": "The Music Man" song |
| IOWA | "___ Stubborn" ("The Music Man" song) |
| TIL | "___ There Was You" ("The Music Man" song) |
| TROMBONE | One of 76 in a "Music Man" song |
| ANDRAMBLER | ___ ___ ___ roses: the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (8,3,7) |
| CLIMBING | ___ ___ ___ roses: the subjects of this week's Miscellany! (8,3,7) |
| MASON | Author of the Inspector Hanaud novels including At the Villa Rose, The Prisoner in the Opal, They Wouldn't Be Chessmen and The House in Lordship Lane (5) |
| IRIS | First name of the author of The Sandcastle, An Unofficial Rose, The Unicorn and The Sea, the Sea (4) |
| SADDER | 'A ___ and a wiser man,/He rose the morrow morn' (Samuel Taylor Coleridge 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798) |
| EVENIF | Method Man song on the soundtrack to "The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps" |
| HUMAN | Rag'n'Bone Man song that won the Brit Award for British Single of the Year in 2018 |
| NOWHERE | '-- Man', song on The Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' album (7) |
| FEEL | "___ It Still" (Portugal. The Man song) |
| HES | "___ My Man"; song for The Supremes |
| IFI | "___ Were a Rich Man"; song from "Fiddler on the Roof" |
| IWEREA | "If ___ Rich Man"; song from "Fiddler on the Roof" |
| MIRROR | ____ Man, song by The Human League released in 1982 (6) |
| NUN | A Christian religious woman who lives by certain vows, as in the shrub rose 'The ___', and Camellia japonica 'White ___' (3) |
