| WEEZER | Rock band that wouldn't let Weird Al Yankovic include Buddy Holly in his medley The Alternative Polka |
| PEGGYSUE | Song released by Buddy Holly in 1957 (5,3) |
| EMINEM | Rapper who wouldn't let Weird Al Yankovic make a music video of the Lose Yourself parody Couch Potato |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | Wings frontman who wouldn't let Weird Al Yankovic parody Live and Let Die as Chicken Pot Pie: 2 wds. |
| PRINCE | Pop legend who wouldn't let Weird Al Yankovic parody When Doves Cry Let's Go Crazy Kiss or 1999 |
| DELUISE | Dom, comic actor whose film roles include Buddy Bizarre in Blazing Saddles (7) |
| CALM | In a musical medley, the part without wind |
| SATIRE | Meaning "poetic medley", the art of ridiculing through storytelling, defined by Dr Johnson as "a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured" (6) |
| TREELINE | Holly in the French horizon overlooking the forest perhaps (4,4) |
| PEARTREE | Lance dropped one off to meet Holly in the conference centre presumably (4,4) |
| BLEND | It's a smooth medley the British Legion finish with (5) |
| BRANCH | Apart from Holly in First Blood holding the horses? (6) |
| ADA | Oscar-winning role for Holly in "The Piano" |
| ELF | Ben or Holly in "Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom," e.g. |
| IVY | Woody climber that features with holly in a well-known carol (3) |
| IMPERVIOUS | With a whimper Vi ousted her and wouldn't let in (10) |
| ROSE | The flower that wouldn't stay in its bed? (4) |
| EMUS | Birds that wouldn't fit in the oven (4) |
| YWCA | Rec. center that wouldn't have made sense for the Village People to sing about |
| COATOFARMS | Badge taken from garment that wouldn't reach the legs? (4,2,4) |
