| LEITMOTIF | A theme to lift me - I need a kick |
| PRISONER | "Alone from night to night you'll find me; Too weak to break the chains that bind me; I need no shackles to remind me; I'm just a ... of love" |
| CHAINS | "Alone from night to night you'll find me; Too weak to break the ... that bind me; I need no shackles to remind me; I'm just a prisoner of love" |
| DELIVER | Free me I need to give birth soon! (7) |
| OLDTIME | Told me I need to change: out of date (3-4) |
| THREE | Rhyme time at the bowling alley: Unlike most balls, which have no holes, I'm as heavy as can be. So that you can lift me up, I was built with ___. |
| RIRI | Lift Me Up singer to fans |
| AXIOM | A kiss lifts me in Paris, as a rule (5) |
| UPTO | Reba McEntire's "You Lift Me ___ Heaven" |
| BADGALRIRI | Instagram handle for the artist who just released "Lift Me Up" |
| RIH | "Lift Me Up" singer, for short |
| RIHANNA | "Lift Me Up" singer who turns 36 today |
| FILMSET | Somehow lifts me to see where the movie is made (7) |
| REMAKE | Playboy lifts me up in new version of old film (6) |
| LEFTISM | Socialist thinking lifts me, surprisingly (7) |
| TALMUD | Source of laws cheers, lifts me up, didactic, first of all |
| SPY | "The ___ Who Loved Me" (movie Carly Simon did the theme to) |
| TINATURNER | "What's Love Got to Do With It" singer who performed the theme to "GoldenEye": 2 wds. |
| SHERYLCROW | "All I Wanna Do" singer who performed the theme to "Tomorrow Never Dies": 2 wds. |
| EPHEMERA | Their lives are short, having kept theme to get rid of extremists a long time (8) |
