| RENT | New York's The ___ Is Too Damn High party |
| BIGAPPLE | Sounds as if New York's the place for choice fruit (3,5) |
| BIG | Sounds as if New York's the place for choice fruit (3,5) |
| AGE | Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer drama set in 19th century New York, The ___ of Innocence |
| EMPIRE | New York, The ___ State |
| AULD | "The boys of the _ choir were singing Galway Bay, and the bells were ringing out, for Christmas Day": Fairytale of New York, The Pogues (4) |
| TAMPA | New York : The Big Apple :: ___ : The Big Guava |
| HARLEM | Where, in New York, the French are in the wrong |
| BELMONT | --- Stakes, horse race for three-year-olds in New York; the third leg of the US Triple Crown (7) |
| ANNIEHALL | 1977 romantic comedy set in New York, the last film of this genre to win the Best Picture Oscar (5,4) |
| SINATRA | "___ was swinging, all the drunks they were singing": Fairytale of New York, The Pogues (7) |
| EMPIRESTATE | "And after I win, we can rename New York 'The Bloomberg Medi |
| RUSSELL | Which actor starred in Escape from New York, The Thing and Stargate? (7) |
| APPLE | New York the Big one |
| FAIRYTALE | "... of New York" (The Pogues) (9) |
| STATUE | French gift to New York, the ... of Liberty |
| NATIONS | World body with its headquarters in New York, the United ... |
| HEAT | Bed bugs come out at night when the lure of Carbon dioxide and our ___ is too much to handle |
| HATE | "___ is too great a burden to bear": Martin Luther King Jr. |
| THIS | "___ is too easy!" |