| THEONLYWAYISUP | Chart-topping 1988 hit by Yazz and the Plastic Population (3,4,3,2,2) |
| SHE | "There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's) |
| SMOOTH | 1988 hit by US singer Michael Jackson that asks 'Annie, are you okay?' (6,8) |
| CRIMINAL | 1988 hit by US singer Michael Jackson that asks 'Annie, are you okay?' (6,8) |
| THEPROMISE | 1988 hit by When in Rome vowing "If you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me" |
| JUSTLIKEHEAVEN | 1988 hit for The Cure |
| MANINTHEMIRROR | One asked "to change his ways," per a 1988 hit |
| PLASTIC | The _ Population, joined Yazz on hit The Only Way Is Up (7) |
| BRYSHEREYGRAY | "Empire" star also known by the stage name Yazz the Greatest |
| ISUP | The Only Way __ __: 1988 number one for Yazz. (2,2) |
| TEA | Hot beverage served by Tom and Yazz Cunningham at Park Cafe in Hollyoaks (3) |
| TOM | _ Cunningham, Chester mainstay and businessman who is married to Yazz in Hollyoaks (3) |
| YASMINE | ___ Maalik, star behind Yazz Cunningham in Hollyoaks (7) |
| VERITY | Yazz Cunningham set Shaq Qureshi up on a date with this Hollyoaks lady (6) |
| HAIESHA | ___ Mistry, actress who plays Chester's Yazz (7) |
| LABI | Yazz Cunningham's absent half-brother in Hollyoaks (4) |
| MAALIK | Maiden name of Tom Cunningham's estranged wife Yazz in Hollyoaks (6) |
| ANITA | Singer Baker with the 1988 hit "Giving You the Best That I Got" |
| ENYA | Irish singer and composer Eithne Pedraigin Ni Bhraonain, who had a huge 1988 hit with the album Watermark (4) |
| NIGER | African river, reportedly one of the ten accounting for 90% of the plastic entering the world's oceans |
