| ALLYOUNEEDISLOVE | Beatles hit that begins with the French national anthem (3,3,4,2,4) |
| LENS | Contact, for example, with the French national school (4) |
| ROUGETDELISLE | Claude Joseph, composer of the French national anthem La Marseillaise (6,2,5) |
| MARSEILLAISE | The French national anthem (12) |
| DAYTRIPPER | 1965 Beatles hit that begins "Got a good reason for taking the easy way out" |
| HELLOGOODBYE | Beatles hit that begins, 'You say yes, I say no' |
| THELADYOFTHELAKE | Poem by Sir Walter Scott which begins with the hunting of a stag in the Trossachs (3,4,2,3,4) |
| LIFEONMARS | Bowie song that begins with the lyric "It's a God-awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair" |
| WHITSUN | Shortened name for the week that begins with the seventh Sunday after Easter (7) |
| HARARE | Only African national capital that begins with the letter "H" |
| STRIKE | Cormoran -; character in a book series of the same name that begins with The Cuckoo's Calling (6) |
| CHANGE | Autobiographical novel by Edouard Louis that begins with the intention "to fix the past in writing" (March, 2024) |
| OPAL | Birthstone that begins with the same letter as its associated month |
| EDDA | Epic poem that begins with the "Gylfaginning" |
| FESTIVUS | "Seinfeld" holiday that begins with the Airing of Grievances |
| LOST | TV drama that begins with the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 |
| AENEID | Epic tale that begins with the flight from Troy |
| CLUE | Game that begins with the murder of Mr. Boddy |
| ART | Tony-winning play that begins with the purchase of a completely white painting |
| ROSARY | Christian prayer that begins with the Apostles' Creed (6) |
