| AQUABLUE | Like the skies in Bob Dylan's "Mozambique" |
| ASHEN | Like the skies in "Ulalume" |
| ELAL | Airline whose name means 'to the skies' in Hebrew (2,2) |
| SUNNY | Like the skies, sometimes, around N.Y.'s U.N. |
| NEPTUNE | "Praise be to Nero's ___ / The Titanic sails at dawn" (lyrics in Bob Dylan's "Desolation Row") |
| BAEZ | Singer in Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue |
| SWALLOW | Bird with a forked tail that catches insects on the wing and spends the winter in tropical Africa, thousands can be seen in the skies over Mallorca during its spring and autumn migratory passage (7) |
| AZURE | Like clear skies in Arizona quarter occasionally (5) |
| PENNYLANE | Place that's "beneath the blue suburban skies," in a |
| GREY | Like overcast skies, in England |
| STORMRENT | Like skies in a tempest, poetically |
| IRIS | Goddess whose name survives in coloured parts of the eyes, rainbows of the skies and the "fleur-de-lis" flowers, whose purple or yellow falls provide a post-winter springtime surprise (4) |
| SUBURBAN | Kind of skies in "Penny Lane" |
| AIRPOWER | Strength in the skies (3,5) |
| FLYBOYS | 2006 war drama set in the skies (7) |
| TOPGUN | Tom Cruise franchise set in the skies (3,3) |
| SAFADI | "Pink Skies in Seattle": Current song of 2023 by Canadian rap artist Terell ___ |
| SCUD | What clouds do? Primarily dart under clear skies in any way (4) |
| SPUD | Potato for the scarecrow in Bob the Builder (4) |
| LOFTY | Bob's crane in Bob the Builder (5) |
