| NONETS | Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool" group, and others |
| NONET | Group on Miles Davis's "Birth of the Cool," e.g. |
| TEAMS | A Mets group and others |
| GOROUNDTHETRAPS | Tour group and others oddly taking little time (2,5,3,5) |
| DAVIS | Miles of "Birth of the Cool" |
| GERRYMULLIGAN | Baritone jazz saxophonist and contributor to the album Birth of the Cool (5,8) |
| MILESDAVIS | He was there at the Birth Of The Cool (5,5) |
| MILES | 2019 music documentary about a jazz legend, - Davis: Birth of the Cool (5) |
| MIROS | 'The Birth of the World' and 'The Beautiful Bird Revealing the Unknown to a Pair of Lovers,' e.g. |
| OSAGE | "Killers of the Flower Moon: The ___ Murders and the Birth of the F.B.I." (nonfiction book adapted into a 2023 film) |
| SELIM | First song on side three of Miles Davis's "Live-Evil" (The first song on side one is "Sivad," hint, hint) |
| TRUMPET | Louis Armstrong's and Miles Davis's instrument (7) |
| ALLIANCE | "... he will be sent on a tour around the world, and probably rumours of a morganatic ____ will follow" (Keir Hardie, five days after the birth of the future Edward VIII) |
| AMUSED | Cheered article on Miles Davis's first absorbing work (6) |
| NEFERTITI | Miles Davis's last acoustic LP, bound for ancient Egypt (9) |
| CHICKCOREA | Jazz pianist who played in Miles Davis's band |
| TUTU | Miles Davis's ballet record? (4) |
| LUMIERE | French brothers whose invention of the Cinematographe marked the birth of the film industry (7) |
| NATAL | Of the birth of the boys (5) |
| 1948 | Year of the birth of the NHS |
