| AMERICANPIE | No. 1 hit whose lyric "This'll be the day that I die" was turned into "Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi" by Weird Al |
| SAYWHEN | Name the day that I should stop pouring! |
| HEINRICHHEINE | German poet, writer and literary critic whose lyric poetry was set to music in the form of lieder by composers such as Mendelssohn, Schumann and Schubert (8,5) |
| ITALY | One of the countries "No Time to Die" was filmed in |
| SOUPCON | A little cup to pour into soon (7) |
| SIERRAKATOW | Comedian who wrote "I'm gonna be a fun aunt, Or a funt." |
| REFUSETHEFORCE | Turn down an opportunity to be a Jedi knight? |
| DAGOBAH | Planet where Luke trained to be a Jedi |
| IDIE | "This'll be the day that ___" (final words in the song "American Pie") |
| ICHABOD | In the Old Testament, the son of Phinehas, born on the day that the Israelites' Ark of God was taken into Philistine captivity |
| ARGO | Best Picture winner with the line If I'm doing a fake movie it's gonna be a fake hit |
| BIGMAN | "Buddy, you're a boy, make a big noise / Playing in the street, gonna be a ___ ___ some day": We Will Rock You, Queen (3,3) |
| BEDCHEM | Sabrina Carpenter song that begins "I was in a sheer dress the day that we met" |
| RESPECT | 1967 #1 hit whose lyrics begin "What you want / Baby, I got it" |
| ROCKETMAN | Elton John hit featuring the line: "And I think it's gonna be a long long time" (6,3) |
| HOLLABACKGIRL | Gwen Stefani No. 1 hit whose melody interpolates Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" |
| WAP | 2020 No. 1 hit whose title acronym is compared to "macaroni in a pot" |
| BOBBYMCFERRIN | Singer of the feel-good a cappella #1 hit whose title begins the answers to starred clues |
| USA | "I know I'm gonna be okay, yeah, it's a party in the ___" |
| VOLARE | 1958 No. 1 hit whose title is Italian for "to fly" |