| BRASSENS | Georges -, French singer- songwriter who wrote 1947 novel La lune ecoute aux portes (8) |
| SERGE | French singer-songwriter who was married to Jane Birkin from 1968-80 (5,10) |
| GAINSBOURG | French singer-songwriter who was married to Jane Birkin from 1968-80 (5,10) |
| MAYFIELD | Curtis, U.S. singer/ songwriter who wrote the gospel-influenced 1965 track People Get Ready (8) |
| PHARRELL | Singer/songwriter who wrote Blurred Lines (8) |
| MELTORME | American singer songwriter who wrote The Christmas Song (3,5) |
| BOBDYLAN | Singer-songwriter who wrote Manfred Mann's hit song Mighty Quinn (3,5) |
| EMPTORES | Me portes ad eos qui emant |
| SINISTER | 1947 novel by Vladimir Nabokov (4,8) |
| FULLMOON | 1947 novel by P G Wodehouse |
| ITHEJURY | 1947 novel by Mickey Spillane (1,3,4) |
| UNDERTHE | 1947 novel by Malcolm Lowry (5,3,7) |
| COHEN | Canadian poet and singer/songwriter who wrote the novel Beautiful Losers, Leonard ___ (5) |
| GUTHRIE | Woody ___ (1912 - 67), American singer-songwriter who wrote This Land is Your Land (7) |
| NELSON | Country singer/songwriter who wrote the 1961 Patsy Cline hit Crazy, Willie ... |
| LENNON | Singer/songwriter who wrote Imagine (6) |
| LATRAVIATA | Three-act opera by Verdi based on the novel "La dame aux camelias" (2,8) |
| HICK | 2007 Andrea Portes novel about a teenager who leaves her home in rural Nebraska |
| CLAIR | 18th-century French folk song, Au _ De La lune (5) |
| ANE | Georges Perec's 1969 novel "La Disparition" is written entirely without this |
