| ORITSE | One quarter of JLS, _ Williams (6) |
| ASTON | One quarter of JLS, _ Merrygold (5) |
| MARVINHUMES | One quarter of JLS, now a TV presenter with wife Rochelle (6.5) |
| MERRYGOLD | One quarter of JLS, Aston _ (9) |
| JBGILL | Member of JLS who was a runner-up on Strictly in 2024 (2,4) |
| MARVIN | _ Humes, JLS singer and TV host (6) |
| INLOVE | Everybody _ _, second chart-topper from JLS (2,4) |
| SWEDEN | One quarter of the garden is foreign soil (6) |
| SAHARA | Desert covering one quarter of Africa (6) |
| TWENTY | One quarter of eighty (6) |
| NADINE | One quarter of Girls Aloud, _ Coyle (6) |
| ANTONY | _ Costa, one quarter of Blue (6) |
| DUNCAN | One quarter of Blue, _ James (6) |
| EDIBLE | Writer and lawyer swallow one quarter of what's okay to eat (6) |
| GILL | Songs of Praise presenter and ex-JLS singer, JB ---- (4) |
| INCH | Unit of imperial length equal to one twelfth of a foot or 2.54 cm; one quarter of a hand; or, a unit of measurement for pressure in a barometer (4) |
| ALIVE | The Club Is ___, JLS hit |
| CLUB | The ___ is Alive, 2010 JLS chart-topper (4) |
| BEAT | "___ Again", 2009 UK No. 1 hit for British boy band JLS (4) |
| ROOD | Old square measure of land one quarter of an acre (4) |
