| STREISAND | American singer (surname) who has 15 across, 5 down (9) |
| CELINE | (and 22 across) Canadian singer who has 15 across, 5 down (6) |
| SINATRA | Late American singer (surname) who had 15 across, 5 down (7) |
| VALLI | American singer (surname) best known for his work with the Four Seasons (5) |
| COCHRAN | Singer (surname) who had a posthumous 1960 number one with 'Three Steps To Heaven' (7) |
| PLANT | 10 down's singer (surname) who co-wrote 11 across and 19 down (5) |
| BEETHOVEN | Composer (surname) who had 15 across, 5 down (9) |
| PRIESTLEY | Playwright (surname) who wrote The Good Companions and An Inspector Calls (9) |
| PAVAROTTI | Late Italian tenor (surname) who was a former schoolteacher (9) |
| PROKOFIEV | Russian composer (surname) who died on precisely the same day as Joseph Stalin (9) |
| HEMINGWAY | Late writer (surname) who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature (9) |
| EVERGREEN | To 30 will spell out the common name of several wild flowers which might form part of a 29 across 5 down 25 down 15 across! ACROSS 8 Plant retaining its leaves all year (9) |
| SQIN | A 3-by-5 card has 15, e.g. |
| MARIT | Norway's ___ Bjorgen has 15 Winter gold medals; more than anyone else (5) |
| LOPEZ | US actress and singer (surname) (5) |
| GAMENIGHT | 2018 comedy film starring 21 Across, 5 Down, 20 Down and 22 Down (4,5) |
| CATHERINE | ___ Called Birdy, 2022 historical coming-of-age film starring 26 Across, 28 Across, 5 Down, and 21 Down (9) |
| URANUS | Which major planet has 15 small planets (6) |
| ROWS | This puzzle has 15 of them |
| MAKESADENTIN | Water (Smallville (Mononymous singer) surname) line |
