| MONDOBONGO | The Boomtown Rats' fourth album, including the singles Banana Republic and The Elephants Graveyard |
| CORA | "- and the Elephants" |
| AERIE | John Denver album including "The Eagle and the Hawk" |
| JLO | 2001 album including the song "Love Don't Cost a Thing" |
| CHRISREA | Middlesbrough-born singer and guitarist noted for albums including The Road To Hell (5,3) |
| UBANGI | River that forms the border between the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (6) |
| REDARMY | What name was adopted by a Japanese international terrorist group and the militaries of the Hungarian Soviet Republic and the Bavarian Soviet Republic? (3,4) |
| MONDAY | Day of the week that was anathema to The Boomtown Rats |
| FINGERS | Johnnie ___ was the keyboard player in the Boomtown Rats. (7) |
| BOBGELDOF | Lead singer of the Boomtown Rats who organised Band Aid and Live Aid with Midge Ure (3,6) |
| CUBA | A republic and the largest island in the Caribbean (4) |
| PUNICWARS | Series of three conflicts fought between the Roman Republic and the Carthaginian empire (5,4) |
| RATTRAP | Song by the Boomtown Rats that was the first single by a punk or new wave act to reach number one (3,4) |
| DREAMING | The ___: Kate Bush's fourth album, released in 1982, also the title of a single from the album (8) |
| HURT | Award-winning English stage and screen actor who starred in the films Alien, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Elephant Man (4) |
| IDONTLIKEMONDAYS | A number one hit for The Boomtown Rats (1,4,4,7) |
| WOODYGUTHRIE | The Boomtown Rats took their name from a gang mentioned in whose autobiography? (5,7) |
| MONDAYS | What the Boomtown Rats didn't like in 1979 (7) |
| MON | Day The Boomtown Rats didn't like in '79, for short |
| FIVE | Dublin landmark namechecked in the Boomtown Rats Rat Trap. (4,5) |
