| RUBYMURRAY | Singer whose name is broadly synonymous with 'Hot Stuff' (4,6) |
| GENERAL | For whom war is, broadly speaking, total? |
| MASTEROFNONE | One who is broadly competent over a wide spectrum of activity (4,2,3,6,6,2,4) |
| JACKOFALLTRADES | One who is broadly competent over a wide spectrum of activity (4,2,3,6,6,2,4) |
| SHOPLIFTER | One with hot stuff |
| PINK | Singer whose name is often stylized with an exclamation mark |
| CHUBBYCHECKER | Singer whose name is based on Fats Domino's name |
| ALGREEN | Singer whose name is an anagram of "enlarge" |
| DESREE | 1990s singer whose name is one letter short of being a Napoleon fiancee |
| BJORK | Singer whose name is Icelandic for "birch" |
| BRITNEYSPEARS | Pop singer whose name is an anagram of the word Presbyterians: 2 wds. |
| ENYA | Singer whose name is almost a country in Africa |
| HER | R&B singer whose name is a pronoun |
| KDLANG | Singer whose name is written in lower case |
| LORDE | Singer whose name is scrambled in her album title "Melodrama" |
| NENA | '99 Luftballons' singer whose name is an anagram of two of Henry VIII's wives |
| LAVA | On the outskirts of Lake Geneva with hot stuff running down the hill (4) |
| WASABI | Set-up one graduate spotted with hot stuff (6) |
| PEPPER | Liberally shower one with hot stuff (6) |
| DEFENCE | Germany and Spain deal with hot stuff for protection (7) |