| ASTUTE | Shrewd like Old King Cole in the end (6) |
| AMERRY | Morally roused somehow, like Old King Cole (1,5,3,4) |
| SONATINA | Old King Cole in wrong area finds little work |
| OLDSOUL | Morally roused somehow, like Old King Cole (1,5,3,4) |
| MERRY | Like Old King Cole |
| GHOSTS | Supernatural beings seen by Cole in The Sixth Sense (6) |
| TURKEY | "Everybody knows a ... and some mistletoe; Help to make the season bright," sang Nat King Cole in Me |
| ARTHUR | ____ Daley, used car dealer played by George Cole in the TV comedy drama series Minder (6) |
| SNATCH | Bit of a song involving King Cole in school |
| CANUTE | Old King Cole gutted about fish swimming upwards (6) |
| NATION | Country home to accommodate Old King Cole first (6) |
| AGNATE | Relative to get Old King Cole making entrance |
| HEBDEN | Malcolm ___, actor who plays Norris Cole in ITV soap Coronation Street (6) |
| SYLVIA | ___ Goodwin, played by Stephanie Cole in Coronation Street (6) |
| NORRIS | Malcolm Hebden plays ____ Cole in Coronation Street |
| SMILE | Song composed by Charlie Chaplin, recorded for the first time with lyrics by Nat King Cole in 1954 (5) |
| STAGNATED | King Cole in organised play that came to a standstill (9) |
| ISEE | "___ dead people"; words from Cole in "The Sixth Sense" |
| UNFORGETTABLE | Song written by Irving Gordon and recorded by Nat King Cole in 1951 (13) |
| SINCLAIR | Ryan, role played by actor Tosin Cole in the TV series Doctor Who (8) |
