| BACHARACH | Burt --, American composer of popular songs (9) |
| IRVING | ... Berlin, American composer of popular songs |
| COLEPORTER | American composer of popular songs such as 'Night and Day' (4,6) |
| TUNESMITH | Composer of popular songs |
| CHANTEUSE | Female singer of popular songs (9) |
| HITPARADE | List of popular songs ... or a hint to the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| HOOK | James, English composer of popular song The Lass of Richmond Hill (4) |
| BERNSTEIN | Leonard, American composer of the musical West Side Story (9) |
| INNUMBERS | More than a few popular songs (2,7) |
| SMASHHITS | Popular songs destroy this order |
| JEROME | -- Kern, American composer of musical theatre and popular songs (6) |
| THRUSH | Songbird / a woman singer of popular songs |
| DJS | They might make remixes of popular songs: Abbr. |
| PANALLEYTIN | Bygone source of popular songs |
| CHART | Church with skill producing list of popular songs (5) |
| COVERVERSIONS | Recordings of popular songs (they're never original!) (5,8) |
| HITPARADES | H aspirated incorrectly in lists of popular songs (3,7) |
| TOPFORTY | Best two score a number of popular songs (3,5) |
| CROONER | Singer of popular songs in a low, intimate style developed by radio performers in 1920s America (7) |
| ARNDT | Felix ___, American pianist and composer of popular music who influenced George Gershwin |
