| CALLOWAY | Cab ---, bandleader who co-wrote the call-and-response song Minnie the Moocher |
| BABY | - - -, It's Cold Outside, frequently covered call-and-response song by Frank Loesser (4) |
| BLAKEY | Art, US drummer and bandleader who co-founded the quintet the Jazz Messengers (6) |
| ARTBLAKEY | US drummer and bandleader who co-founded quintet the Jazz Messengers (3,6) |
| CABCALLOWAY | American jazz singer and bandleader whose most famous song was Minnie the Moocher |
| ANIGHTAT | "You're willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of Minnie the Moocher for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get Minnie," decl |
| CAB | Minnie The Moocher was resurrected in the 1980 film, The Blues Brothers, by jazz legend ... Calloway |
| JACKLONDON | American author, journalist and social activist who wrote The Call of the Wild (4,6) |
| ECHO | Call-and-response at the Grand Canyon |
| AMEN | Call-and-response response |
| POLO | Certain call-and-response response |
| MARCOPOLO | Name shouted in call and response in a pool |
| HIDEHO | "Minnie the Moocher" chorus: Hyph. |
| LONDON | Who wrote The Call of the Wild? (6) |
| HPLOVECRAFT | Classic horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu": 3 wds. |
| ANTIPHONY | Call-and-response singing |
| MARCO | Half of a call-and-response game |
| LOVECRAFT | Horror author who wrote "The Call of Cthulhu" |
| BEANO | The ___, children's comic first printed in 1938, with characters including Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, and the Bash Street Kids (5) |
| MINNIE | Cab Calloway sang, "Folks, now here's the story 'bout ... the Moocher; She was a red-hot hootchie-co |