| THEBOXER | Simon and Garfunkel song which starts: I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told (3,5) |
| BOXER | With "The," hit song that begins "I am just a poor boy and my story's seldom told" |
| APOOR | "I am just __ boy, though my story's seldom told": "The Boxer" |
| AMERICA | Simon and Garfunkel song which starts with boarding a Greyhound bus in Pittsburgh |
| PURPLERAIN | 1984 song by Prince which starts: I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain (6,4) |
| BRIGHTEYES | Art Garfunkel song which became Britain's biggest-selling single of 1979 (6,4) |
| ACHES | "...For I never knew the art of making love, though my heart ___ with love for you. Afraid and shy I let my chance go by..." -Ray Charles/lenny Welch/elvis, "You Don't Know Me" each so good (1962) |
| SCIMITAR | Blade -- I am just the thing to open old wound (8) |
| BADLYOFF | Poor boy -- lad's shattered by fines (5,3) |
| ISA | "There ... house in New Orleans; They call the Rising Sun; And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy; And God, I know, I'm one" (2,1) |
| OOHLALA | Faces song whose chorus starts "I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger" |
| WHITTINGTON | Dick ---, pantomime in which a poor boy sets out for London to make his fortune (11) |
| OATES | "I am just going outside and may be some time," were the last words of Scott's Antarctic companion i |
| RUMPUMPUMPUM | Drum sound from a poor boy of song |
| ROAR | Katy Perry hit that starts "I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath" |
| AURA | Lady Gaga song that starts "I killed my former and left her in the trunk on Highway Ten" |
| NEWORLEANS | Where there's a house they call The Rising Sun (and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy) (3,7) |
| SHINEONHARVESTMOON | Tin Pan Alley song which starts "The night was mighty dark so you could hardly see" |
| BLANKSPACE | 2014 Taylor Swift song which starts "Nice to meet you, where you been?" (5,5) |
| WISHYOUWEREHERE | Pink Floyd song which starts: So you think you can tell, Heaven from hell? (4,3,4,4) |
