| FIONAAPPLE | Art pop singer-songwriter who won a Best Alternative Music Album Grammy in 2021 for Fetch the Bolt Cutters: 2 wds. |
| VAMPIREWEEKEND | Indie rock band that won a Best Alternative Music Album Grammy in 2020 for Father of the Bride: 2 wds. |
| DAVIDBOWIE | Glam rock legend who won a posthumous Best Alternative Music Album Grammy in 2017 for Blackstar: 2 wds. |
| MITSKI | Indie pop singer-songwriter who wrote the lyric "Venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming" |
| ENO | Art-pop musician Brian whose surname is one of the words in this clue, but backwards |
| BRICUSSE | Leslie, songwriter who won a Best Music, Original Song Oscar for Talk to the Animals from Doctor Dol |
| LOESSER | American songwriter who won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls (5,7) |
| FRANK | American songwriter who won a Tony Award for Guys and Dolls (5,7) |
| REM | Band that received the second-ever Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album |
| WARHOL | Pop art's pop |
| BALL | Item for fetch or catch |
| NAS | « Rapper who won his first Grammy in 2021 |
| ABBA | Long-standing Swedish group first nominated for a Grammy in 2021 |
| STEVEMARTIN | L.A. Story actor whose The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo won the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy in 2010: 2 wds. |
| PORTER | Gregory, U.S. singer/songwriter who was nominated for Best R&B album Grammy in 2020 for All Rise (6) |
| MONEY | Take the _ and Run (title of two blank canvases sent to a Danish museum in 2021, for which they had paid $84,000, expecting an actual work of art; a judge ordered creator Jens Haaning to return the pa |
| DOLLYPARTON | 9 to 5 actress/singer whose The Grass Is Blue won the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy in 2001: 2 wds. |
| NIGELLALAWSON | Food writer and TV cook who was nominated for a BAFTA in 2021 for her pronunciation of microwave (7,6) |
| AGUILERA | Christina, US singer-songwriter who won the Best New Artist prize at the Grammy Awards of 2000 (8) |
| STONE | Joss, English singer/songwriter who won the 2021 series of The Masked Singer as Sausage (5) |
