| INDIANRED | Mardi Gras song, popular, and dire in other arrangement (6,3) |
| OVERTHERE | Song popular with United States soldiers in both world wars (4,5) |
| DITHERING | Vacillation is a thing dire in its outcome (9) |
| EMERGENCE | Disclosure of major crisis mostly dire in the end |
| THREESOME | See other arrangement constricting male trio (9) |
| THEREFORE | Hence free other arrangement (9) |
| IKOIKO | Classic Mardi Gras song that begins "My grandma and your grandma were / Sitting by the fire" |
| IKO | Said twice, a classic Mardi Gras song |
| ENTERTAIN | Go in with volunteers, popular, and receive guests (9) |
| INTERESTS | Pursuits in popular and fashionable streets (9) |
| IMPATIENT | One in hospital is popular and long-suffering (2-7) |
| OUTWITHIT | Tell me it's no longer popular and trendy (3,4,2) |
| ZEPHIRINE | '___ Drouhin' - a popular (and thornless) climbing rose with scented, deep carmine pink blooms (9) |
| AWAKENING | Article by joker filled with knowledge, popular and inspiring (9) |
| TERMINATE | Finish semester - popular and consumed! (9) |
| INTRICATE | Complex about being surrounded by popular and banal |
| LOWSEASON | Less popular and cheaper time of year for a holiday (3, 6) |
| INPATIENT | Popular and uncomplaining chap on hospital ward |
| INSURGENT | Revolutionary books introduced by popular and powerful mass movement? (9) |
| WELLLIKED | Popular and healthy, similar to daughter (4-5) |
