| BOBDYLAN | Nobel Laureate and folk singer who recently turned 80 (3,5) |
| RODSTEWART | Musician who recently turned 80 whose father was a master builder in Leith (3,7) |
| RUTHIE | Blues and folk singer/songwriter Foster |
| EARLE | Steve, country, rock, and folk singer/songwriter born in 1955 (5) |
| MORRISON | Nobel Laureate and Pulitzer winner, writer Toni ... |
| RAYLEIGH | British Nobel laureate and co-discoverer of argon |
| BARANSKI | The Gilded Age actress who recently turned 70 (9,8) |
| JOANBAEZ | Contemporary folk singer who recorded her first album in 1960 and her most recent in 2018 |
| IONAFYFE | Folk singer who is Aberdeen University's rector (4,4) |
| BURLIVES | Folk singer who won an Oscar in 1958 |
| BETJEMAN | Poet laureate and Victorian Society co-founder who penned Archibald, Diary of a Church Mouse and How to Get On in Society (8) |
| UNAHEALY | Irish ex-singer who recently split from David Haye (3,5) |
| SHADWELL | Thomas -, English poet laureate and dramatist |
| SCRABBLE | Word-based board game turned 80 (8) |
| ROBERTDE | Raging Bull actor ___ ___ Niro turned 80 (6,2) |
| NEWFOUND | Recently turned up unfed, now being spoiled |
| RYLE | Nobel laureate and Astronomer Royal who invented aperture synthesis in radio telescopes (4) |
| DANIEL | The son of Scott and Charlene who recently turned up in Erinsborough (6,8) |
| BERRY | Food writer and TV cook who recently turned 90 (4,5) |
| MARY | Food writer and TV cook who recently turned 90 (4,5) |
