| MONKSEAL | Sea creature whose name sounds like a mash-up of a jazz pianist and an R&B singer |
| CALLALOO | Jamaican stew whose name sounds like a mash-up of a lily and a lavatory |
| SOUL | Pixar film about a jazz pianist |
| GARNER | Collect a jazz pianist (6) |
| NAUTILUS | Sea creature whose name means "sailor" |
| ORCA | Sea creature whose name is two neighboring coastal states' postal codes |
| SAMCOOKESSTEAK | Dinner specialty of an R&B singer? |
| TELEGRAPHKEYS | Contact an R&B singer? |
| THEHOUSEOFUSHER | Where an R&B singer lives? |
| CRAB | Sea creature whose name doesn't rhyme with 1-Across, weirdly |
| STAN | Overzealous admirer possibly from a mash-up of the terms stalker and fan in an Eminem song |
| CRAZYSEXYCOOL | 1994 TLC album with the #1 hits Creep and Waterfalls whose title is a mash-up of three adjectives |
| OUIJA | Board whose name is a mash-up of two words that mean "yes" |
| CREOLE | Mediocre O-levels revealed a mash-up of tongues (6) |
| BREW | Word for a cup of tea, a ferment, a mash, a witch's potion or a zymotic beer of barley or wheat, all boiling down to the ancient idea of bubbling, burning, effervescing and heat (4) |
| BLUE | Colour of a funk, shade of sadness, hue of the rude or lewd or a tint of a jazz standard by Thelonious Monk (4) |
| MIXTAPE | Term for a compilation or mash-up of music, songs, tracks etc, recorded onto an audio cassette (3,4) |
| ORC | Fantasy creature whose name is an anagram of another fantasy creature |
| EWOK | "Return of the Jedi" creature whose name is never actually spoken in the film |
| MILLIPEDE | Creature whose name derives from Latin words for “thousand” and “foot” |
