| ANIMULA | A little soul; "____, 17, blandula" Hadrian's poetic farewell to life |
| SOU | Lose a little soul for a very little money (3) |
| TITCH | At concert's end, long for a little soul? |
| BABY | Little soul from old Egyptian times (4) |
| STALAG | "___ 17" (William Holden film set in a POW camp) |
| WHOSE | "I'm just a soul ___ intentions are good" |
| GLO | Soul ___ (fictional hair product in "Coming to America") |
| EAST | _ 17, 1990s boyband with a Christmas No 1 (4) |
| HEAVEN | ___ 17, synth-pop band that had a 1983 UK hit with Temptation (6) |
| FREEA | "And leaves soul ___ little": Browning |
| GOD | Life, truth, love, mind, soul, ___ |
| TRAIN | "Soul ___" (TV dance show created by Don Cornelius) |
| HINTS | Collective Soul "___ Allegations and Things Left Unsaid" |
| GRATIS | "Thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul ____?" (Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor) |
| SONG | 'For eloquence the soul, ___ charms the sense' (John Milton Paradise Lost (1667) |
| SOLUTION | Possibly into soul ___ that's the answer (8) |
| SAM | Singer and activist often called the King of Soul, ___ Cooke |
| ARETHA | Singer who was known as the Queen of Soul, _ Franklin (6) |
| SEXY | "(She's) ___ + 17" (1983 Stray Cats hit) |
| UNTO | "The Soul ___ itself / Is an imperial friend- / Or the most agonizing spy-": Emily Dickinson |