| KENDODD | Liverpool comedian whose song Tears sold over 1m copies (3,4) |
| BENNYHILL | English comedian whose song Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West) was the UK Christmas No 1 in 1971 (5,4) |
| ALEXEI | Liverpool comedian ____ Sayle was the Comic Strip's first emcee in the 1980s |
| ODDS | Originally rejected Liverpool comedian's chances (4) |
| CLAPTON | Eric, guitarist who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for the song 'Tears in Heaven' (7) |
| ERICCLAPTON | I Shot the Sheriff singer with the 1992 song Tears in Heaven: 2 wds. |
| RUMOURS | 1977 album that has sold over 18 million copies -- and provided Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign song |
| EMPIRES | Age of ___, video game released in 1997 which has sold over 25m copies (7) |
| OURLIFE | In 1M:___.1942 Bette Davis drama film (3.4) |
| LAUGHER | Jack ?, 2014 Commonwealth 1m springboard diving gold medallist |
| EMPEROR | Largest species of penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri, reaching 1m in height (7) |
| SIAMANG | Large Sumatran black-furred gibbon, 1m tall and up to 14kg (7) |
| MONTANA | US state which is 100,000 sq km bigger than New Zealand, but has a population of only 1m (7) |
| BESSIESMITH | Blues singer whose song "Down Hearted Blues" sold over two million copies |
| HOTCHIP | English synthpop band whose song Over and Over was named best single of 2006 by NME (3,4) |
| BEATLES | The _, band whose song Now And Then was belatedly released in November (7) |
| ENYA | Irish singer whose Watermark album sold over eight million copies |
| ABBA | Band whose "Gold: Greatest Hits" has sold over 30 million copies |
| ASTARISBORN | 2018 Oscar-nominated picture whose soundtrack sold over one million copies |
| ORBISON | US star whose song Crying was sung by an Only Fools and Horses character (7) |
