| LEFTISM | Socialist thinking lifts me, surprisingly (7) |
| FILMSET | Somehow lifts me to see where the movie is made (7) |
| ANAHEIM | Somewhere in California I see in Maine, surprisingly? |
| RIHANNA | "Lift Me Up" singer who turns 36 today |
| AXIOM | A kiss lifts me in Paris, as a rule (5) |
| CHOCOLATEMOUSSE | Sweet, hot sauce cools me, surprisingly (9,6) |
| LEGERDEMAIN | Trickery of member, dear me, surprisingly elected (11) |
| RINGMASTER | Director of a circus that's starring ... me, surprisingly (10) |
| REDEEM | Absolve deer and me, surprisingly (6) |
| REMAKE | Playboy lifts me up in new version of old film (6) |
| TALMUD | Source of laws cheers, lifts me up, didactic, first of all |
| TIMEBOMB | Explosive device supplied by Bob, Tim and me, surprisingly (4,4) |
| UPTO | Reba McEntire's "You Lift Me ___ Heaven" |
| LEITMOTIF | A theme to lift me - I need a kick |
| RIRI | Lift Me Up singer to fans |
| RIH | "Lift Me Up" singer, for short |
| BADGALRIRI | Instagram handle for the artist who just released "Lift Me Up" |
| THREE | Rhyme time at the bowling alley: Unlike most balls, which have no holes, I'm as heavy as can be. So that you can lift me up, I was built with ___. |
| REAMERS | They bore me in lifts (7) |
| PRAISES | Prince lifts honours (7) |
