| RAPPER | Performer chanting rhyming lyrics to African-American music (6) |
| FEBRUARYSTARS | Foo Fighters song with the rhyming lyric "temporary scars" |
| SWAG | "I got hot sauce in my bag, ___" (rhyming lyric in Beyonce's "Formation") |
| APSE | "Perhaps I'll collapse in the ___" (rhyming lyric in the "Company" number "Getting Married Today") |
| HIPHOP | Genre of 1980s and '90s African-American music (3,3) |
| SALUTE | Pay tribute to African country reporting loot (6) |
| SOWETO | Put down roots with sweetheart going to African townships (6) |
| TUNICS | Garments Carthaginian leader introduced to African city (6) |
| LUSAKA | Large Ford crosses states to African capital (6) |
| UGANDA | Pug and Panda head off to African country (6) |
| KIGALI | King banished northern boxer to African city (6) |
| KWACHA | A frequent flyer gets caught when returning to African capital (6) |
| SOMALI | African resident very much linked to African country |
| OBECHE | Beech has no connection to African tree (6) |
| ERRAND | Mission taking soldiers back to African capital |
| NAIRAS | New voice owing to African cash |
| CAROLS | Start chanting a range of lovely songs about Christmas (6) |
| MAORIS | Haka-chanting warriors from Burma or Islamabad (6) |
| FINGER | A sports fan might raise one when chanting, "We're number one!" (and a mom might do the same when silently asking you to "wait just one minute") |
| ANTHEM | Word for a style of alternate chanting/singing originally, later a song of devotion, gladness, joy, loyalty, patriotism or praise; or, a very popular tune or rock ballad (6) |
