| EARGASM | Sensation from a song that you're really, really into, slangily |
| LOVES | Is really, really into |
| NERDY | Really, really into crosswords, say |
| ROUNDELAY | Yodel a run from a song with a refrain (9) |
| IDAHO | "Born in a trunk in the Princess Theater in Pocatello, ___": Ira Gershwin lyric from a song in "A Star is Born" |
| MAYAN | "___ elephant caress you with his toes" (lyric from a song about a bird) |
| FEEL | Have a sensation from payment for services left |
| OFWRATH | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| GRAPES | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| THE | Steinbeck novel that took its title from a song by Julia Ward Howe (3,6,2,5) |
| DISTANCE | 'From A ******** ', song by Bette Midler that reached No 6 in the UK charts in 1990 (8) |
| ELIMINATE | "You've got to accentuate the positive, ___ the negative": lyric from a song nominated for a 1945 Oscar (9) |
| SAMPLE | Part of a song that gets reused by another song |
| NUMBER | A song that doesn't have a name? (6) |
| ORGANSOLO | Part of a song that might be played on a Hammond |
| ARIA | A song that returns in a fair arrangement (4) |
| DRESS | "_ for success", advice from a song by Roxana (5) |
| PRESENTLAUGHTER | Noel Coward play whose name comes from a song in Twelfth Night |
| HIGHSCHOOL | What 1986 ___ romantic comedy got its title from a song by the Psychedelic Furs? |
| QUEEN | Gaga took her name from a song by this band |
