| STAND | Get ready to sing the national |
| STOOD | Got ready to sing the national anthem |
| MANSTANDING | Guy ready to sing the national anthem? |
| STANDS | Prepares to sing the national anthem |
| SHANTY | A crudely built hut or ramshackle dwelling; or, thought to derive from the French for "to sing", the rhythmical song to which sailors hauled ropes (6) |
| CHOIRBOY | Chorus gets one of the juniors to sing the praises of the man upstairs (8) |
| SHELTON | As a teenager she was accepted as a singer with Ambrose %26 His Orchestra and was the first to sing the English version of Lili Marlene; she was Anne ... |
| EASTER | Occasion on which to sing the hymn "Up From the Grave He Arose" |
| NEWYEARSEVE | Time to sing the tune suggested by the starts of 10 long answers in this puzzle |
| STET | Starts to sing the evergreen tune "Let it be" |
| AROSE | Prepared to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| IGOT | '__ a Right to Sing the Blues' |
| LAUD | Look up to sing the praises |
| ANTHEM | Oh, say can you see?: At the beginning of every football game, a singer stands in the center of the field and sings the national ___ |
| INVOICE | Bill is ready to sing |
| SHANANA | "All greased up and ready to sing" '70s-'80s TV hosts |
| EVERYWORD | 'We meet, and the angels sing; The angels sing the sweetest song I ever heard; You speak, and the angels sing; Or am I breathing music into ...," wrote Benny Goodman (5,4) |
| THESWEETEST | "We meet, and the angels sing; The angels sing ... song I ever heard; You speak, and the angels sing |
| NEW | With 65- and 66-Across, when to sing the song in the circled squares |
| KIDS | It's a carol for all ages: When you sing "The Christmas Song," you wish a Merry Christmas to "___ from one to 92" |
