| RICKROLL | Song-based trick wherein the things the singer's "never gonna" do to you describe the theme answers, in order |
| WALKONAIR | Feel happy as you describe the march to radio listeners? (4,2,3) |
| FLAT | What an a cappella singer never wants to be |
| NAH | 'Never gonna do it' |
| OLDSCORE | One of the things the vindictive person will try to settle? (3,5) |
| GLASS | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| YEAROF | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| INTERNATIONAL | One of the things the UN has declared 2022 to be? (13,4,2,5) |
| GYRE | One of the things the slithy toves did in the wabe |
| TURNYOURHEAD | Look the other way for what success can do to you (4,4,4) |
| OPERATE | If you eat rope like that then this is what they'll do to you (7) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| WEPT | "Jesus ___" (Mavis Staples song based on the shortest verse in the Bible, in John 11) |
| NEVER | Elvis song based on the Italian song O Sole mio. It's Now or _ |
| STRUNGUP | Puts back ringing Rush for head of Government ? that's what nerves do to you (6,2) |
| AUTUMNLEAVES | Much-recorded popular song, based on the 1945 French song Les feuilles mortes, for which Johnny Mercer wrote English lyrics in 1947 |
| MYHAT | Song based on the Carnival of Venice; _ _, it Has Three Corners (2,3) |
| RULEBRITANNIA | Patriotic song, based on a poem by James Thomson set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 |
| IDLE | Member of the Python troupe who wrote a Life of Brian song based on keeping a "stiff upper lip" (4) |
| RUDOLFH | --- The Red-Nosed Reindeer, popular Christmas song based on a 1939 story by Robert L. May (7) |
