| THIRTYFIVEMINUTES | How long it took the back-up band to record 22-Across (without knowing the melody or title!) |
| RESPONSETIME | Presumably someone clocked this might be how long it took the congregation to reply to priest (8,4) |
| RHYTHMSECTION | Back-up band (6,7) |
| CRICKETS | Buddy Holly's chirping back-up band (8) |
| WAILER | Bob Marley back-up band member |
| RAFAELNADAL | Spanish tennis player who has won a joint record 22 Grand Slam men's singles titles (6,5) |
| NADAL | Winner of a record 22 Grand Slams |
| OSCARS | Walt Disney received a record 22 of these awards |
| ABBEY | Sir Edward Elgar conducted the LSO at the opening of the famous recording studio on this road - but it took the Beatles to make it really famous |
| TIMED | Found out how long it took to go back to sea (5) |
| DEMIT | Measured how long it took to get up and abdicate (5) |
| DEMIST | Son inside noted how long it took to go up and remove condensation |
| HOUR | How long it took Ben to catch the ball (4) |
| DAYS | How long it took God to create, say (4) |
| FOURYEARS | How long it took for your fears to be dissipated (4,5) |
| YEARNED | How long it took donkey to have had a longing (7) |
| SPELL | How long it took to prove you had magic powers? (5) |
| AIR | Invisible gaseous mixture through which radio or sound waves travel; a breeze or zephyr, such as that needed to disperse a samara; a melody; or, the "flight" of a skier mid jump (3) |
| MODE | Word for a melody or tune; a manner of acting, behaving, doing or existing; a class of syllogism in logic; or, the prevailing fashion, style or trend in art, clothes, literature etc (4) |
| SEGUE | What is to move without interruption from one song, melody, or scene to another? (5) |
