| DOOWOP | A type of rhythm-and-blues harmony singing style created by street-corner groups in the US in the 1950s (3-3) |
| STRANGLE | Check back of car concealed by street corner (8) |
| DOOBEORNOTDOOBE | Street corner group's question about what part to sing? |
| ELGIN | There's a place reserved in Athens for the return of the sculpted marble pieces souvenired in the 19 |
| TDS | The Rams scored none of these in the '19 Super Bowl, and the Chiefs none in '21 |
| STITCH | Each of a series of sewn loops of thread, such as one in the "saddle" style, created only by hand (6) |
| CHINDIT | A member of one of Brigadier Wingate's long-range penetration groups in the Burma campaign of the Second World War (7) |
| YIYUN | Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for "The Book of Goose," about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
| KURD | Member of one of the largest ethnic groups in the Middle East, which has never obtained a permanent nation state (4) |
| ROCKANDROLL | Blend of rhythm-and-blues and country-and-western music (4,3,4) |
| SHOT | "I got the rockin' pneumonia, I need a ___ of rhythm and blues": Chuck Berry lyric |
| SMARTSET | Literary magazine co-edited by H. L. Mencken in the nineteen-tens and twenties, with The |
| ARMREST | The 19-measure pedal solo in Bach's "Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major" ... from the perspective of the organist's upper body? |
| FOOTNOTES | The 19-measure pedal solo in Bach's "Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major" ... from the perspective of the organist's lower body? |
| ERA | The time of rhythm and blues music, e.g |
| SITO | Johnny nicknamed "The Godfather of Rhythm and Blues" |
| TOMMYSIMPSON | British winner of the 1965 UCI Road World Championships men's road race who died competing in the 19 |
| IDA | ___ B. Wells, civil-rights leader who founded one of the first Black women's suffrage groups in the U.S. |
| MANIAS | The Dutch tulip craze of the sixteen-thirties and the Beatles craze of the nineteen-sixties |
| OTIS | "Godfather of Rhythm and Blues" Johnny ___ |
