| BIGSPENDER | Song written for a 1966 musical and recorded by Peggy Lee the same year, and which became a signature tune for Shirley Bassey (3,7) |
| RICHMAN | Tommy with a song that spent 22 weeks at the top of the hip-hop charts this year, and which is expected to be nominated for at least one Grammy next month |
| IDO | When repeated, a 1966 musical based on "The Fourposter" |
| CABARET | 1966 musical and 1972 film based on I Am A Camera (7) |
| SPENDER | "Big -", song which has been recorded by Peggy Lee and Shirley Bassey (7) |
| MANANA | Song recorded by Peggy Lee in 1947 (6) |
| MELLOW | With 46-Across, colorful rhyme for a 1966 Donovan hit |
| COCAINE | Song written and recorded by J J Cale in 1976 and covered by Eric Clapton a year later |
| SHOES | "Yes, it's a good day for shining your ...; And it's a good day for losing the blues," sang Peggy Lee |
| CAROLINAINMYMIND | Song written and recorded by James Taylor also recorded by John Denver and Melanie (8,2,2,4) |
| IGETIDEAS | 1951 song popularized by Louis Armstrong and by Peggy Lee |
| FEVER | Song popularised by Peggy Lee (5) |
| STREAM | Islands in the ___, song written and recorded by the Bee Gees, named after an Ernest Hemingway novel (6) |
| BREATHYOUTAKE | Every ___ 1983 song written by Sting and recorded by The Police: 3 wds. |
| BONES | 'Hearts and ___': 1983 song (and album) written and recorded by Paul Simon (5) |
| RAINDROPS | Song written for the 1969 film 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid', '- Keep Fallin' on My Head' (9) |
| ONENOTESAMBA | Song composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim and recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Barbra Streisand |
| MAME | 1966 musical that earned Tony Awards for Angela Lansbury, Bea Arthur, and an eleven-year-old Frankie Michaels |
| VANCLEEF | Lee, the Bad actor in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (3,5) |
| RHYTHM | I Got _, George and Ira Gershwin song written for the musical Girl Crazy (6) |
