| HELLO | Chart-topping Adele ballad whose music video features a flip phone |
| ROAR | 2013 Katy Perry hit whose music video features a tiger |
| SOMEONE | "___ Like You" (chart-topping Adele hit) |
| SET | Adele ballad, "___ Fire to the Rain" (3) |
| PURPLERAIN | Ballad whose last seven letters anagram to "praline": 2 wds. |
| WERE | Adele ballad, When We ... Young |
| CASUAL | Chappell Roan ballad whose appearance on my Spotify Top 100 probably means something, but I don't want to interrogate what |
| CHASINYOU | 2020 Morgan Wallen hit whose music video features him driving around in a convertible: 2 wds. |
| BIRTHDAY | 2014 Katy Perry hit whose music video features many cakes |
| THRILLER | Song whose music video features Michael Jackson dancing with zombies |
| CLAM | A bivalve such as a jingle shell to which a ringing bell-, buzz- or tinkle-making retro flip phone is likened; or, a person who silently keeps secrets hidden within their figurative shell (4) |
| CLAMSHELL | A cargo door, cockpit canopy, eyelid, flip phone, laptop, takeaway box or even a type of jawed excavating bucket on a crane/truck, all reminiscent of a "vongola's" hinged shuck (9) |
| TOXIC | Song whose video features Britney Spears as a flight attendant |
| THONG | A strap or a strip; a lash of a whip; a loop of a riding crop; or, a flimsy sandal, also called a flip-flop (5) |
| RAZR | Flip phone whose name sounds like a shaving tool |
| IMUPSET | 2018 Drake top 10 single whose video features his old Degrassi costars: 2 wds. |
| ICHOOSEYOU | 2013 Sara Bareilles song whose video features the engagements of two real-life couples |
| TACKY | Weird Al Yankovic song whose video features Aisha Tyler, Margaret Cho, and Jack Black |
| RAPGOD | 2013 Eminem hit whose music video received a VMA for Best Editing |
| PRAY | MC Hammer song whose music video opens on a gospel choir |
