| ESTEFAN | Gloria ?, Cuba-born singer-songwriter who recorded 1989 UK no 1 album Cuts Both Ways (7) |
| BARBECUE | Where to get a burger, beer? (Cuba brewed) (8) |
| HERLOSS | November 2022 UK No. 1 album by rappers Drake and 21 Savage (3,4) |
| WHIPSAW | Party official understood something that cuts both ways |
| BONJOVI | US rock group whose UK no 1 albums include New Jersey and These Days (3,4) |
| GRAHAME | Gloria ?, Best Actress in a Supporting Role Oscar winner for The Bad and the Beautiful (7) |
| SWANSON | Gloria ?, Best Actress Oscar nominee for The Trespasser and Sadie Thompson (7) |
| STANSFIELD | Lisa, English singer/ songwriter noted for her 1989 UK No 1 hit All Around the World (10) |
| BOYCE | Max ?, comedian who recorded 1975 UK no 1 album We All Had Doctors" Papers (5) |
| GLORIAESTEFAN | Cuban-born singer/songwriter who performed with the Miami Sound Machine (6,7) |
| VANMORRISON | Belfast-born singer-songwriter who was the lead singer of Them (3,8) |
| NINES | Rapper who released the UK No 1 album Crabs In A Bucket (5) |
| CHAPPELL | _ Roan, pop singer behind the UK No 1 album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (8) |
| KATEBUSH | Female singer-songwriter whose UK No 1 albums include 1985's Hounds of Love (4,4) |
| BUSH | Kate ?, singer-songwriter whose UK no 1 albums include 1985's Hounds of Love (4) |
| ISAAK | US singer who had a 1989 UK Top 10 hit with Wicked Game, Chris _ (5) |
| HEREWEARE | Gloria Estefan "Cuts Both Ways" third single |
| SCISSORS | Barman is so on top of reading, writing and arithmetic provided it cuts both ways (8) |
| BOLAN | Marc, London-born singer-songwriter who died in a car crash in 1977 (5) |
| ERROL | ____ Brown, Jamaican-born singer/songwriter who fronted soul and funk band Hot Chocolate (5) |
