| LORDE | New Zealander whose latest single is "Green Light" (5) |
| KYLIE | Ms Minogue, iconic songstress whose latest single is Padam Padam (5) |
| EPIC | Ambitious Grande's latest single out, we hear (4) |
| NDOUR | Senegalese singer-songwriter whose biggest international hit single is the 1991; duet with Nene Cherry 7 Seconds (7,5) |
| DRONE | Doctor (single) is a bit of a bore (5) |
| STONE | The way to get a single is to attack (5) |
| TOLET | John, wanting a single, is available |
| ADELE | Singer whose latest album is 30 (5) |
| USHER | US musician whose latest album is Coming Home (5) |
| SWIFT | Taylor _, singer whose latest album is The Tortured Poets Department (5) |
| RALPH | ___ Fiennes, British actor whose latest film, The Lego Batman Movie, is out now (pictured) (5) |
| JAMES | ___ Corden, actor and TV host whose latest film, Peter Rabbit, is out this week (pictured) (5) |
| IDRIS | ___ Elba, actor whose latest film, The Concrete Cowboy, is streaming now on Netflix (pictured) (5) |
| JASON | ___ Statham, British action film star whose latest offering, Wrath of Man, is released into UK cinemas next month (pictured) (5) |
| CHRIS | ___ Pratt, US actor whose latest film The Tomorrow War, is out now (pictured) (5) |
| STEPS | British pop group whose latest album is 2021's What the Future Holds Pt. 2 (5) |
| SAXON | English heavy metal band, formed in the mid 1970s, whose latest album is 2024's Hell, Fire and Damnation (5) |
| LEITH | Cookery school founder and Bake Off judge, whose latest book title was inspired by Shirley Conran's phrase "life's too short to stuff a mushroom" in Superwoman (5) |
| FARGO | Anthology crime show whose latest season features Jon Hamm and Lamorne Morris |
| EMLYN | Across Welsh actor-dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green (5,8) |
