| OLDSMOKEY | Folk song, On Top Of ... (3,6) |
| OLD | Folk song, On Top Of ... Smokey |
| ALSO | A contribution to funeral song on top of that (4) |
| MEATBALL | Food item lost in the children's song On Top of Spaghetti (8) |
| CUCARACHA | Insect protagonist of a Mexican folk song |
| SEASHANTY | Style of folk song which has a recent surge in popularity thanks to TikTok. (3,6) |
| OHSUSANNA | Folk song with the lyric "a banjo on my knee": 2 wds. |
| TOMDOOLEY | American folk song for The Kingston Trio (2) |
| SPIRITUAL | Religious folk song |
| CALEDONIA | Dougie MacLean's oft-covered Scottish folk song |
| THOSEWERE | Mary Hopkin folk song, "... the Days" (5,4) |
| BRIGGFAIR | English folk song |
| RACETRACK | Newmarket, say, as depicted in folk song? |
| GREYGOOSE | Traditional American folk song (4,5) |
| MALAGUENA | A traditional Spanish dance or folk song (9) |
| JGBALLARD | Jack, good rector, overcome with folk song by dystopian writer (1,1,7) |
| MALONE | Molly, heroine of an Irish folk song who sold cockles and mussels on the streets of Dublin (6) |
| OCHRISTMASTREE | Holiday song based on a traditional German folk song |
| RANGE | Home On The _, folk song of the American West (5) |
| WILLIAMS | Vaughan -; surname of a symphonist noted for works inducing The Lark Ascending (inspired by George Meredith's poem), Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and the English Folk Song Suite (8) |
