| GARTHBROOKS | The Library of Congress announced Oct. 2 that this singer will be awarded the 2020 Gershwin Prize, making him the youngest songwriter yet to win it |
| VIDEOGAMES | For the third year, Grammys will be awarded in 2025 for music composed for this form of entertainment |
| EDITHPIAF | Singer will be paid if the letters get sent out (5,4) |
| SHUGGIEBAIN | Debut novel by Douglas Stuart, awarded the 2020 Booker Prize (7,4) |
| IN | The movie The Woman Cabin 10 was released in Oct. (2) |
| RINGOSTARR | ... this singer will put the topmost ornament on the tree |
| SOPRANO | This singer will get a high score (7) |
| TONYBENNETT | Rags to Riches singer who won the 2017 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song: 2 wds. |
| CORI | First woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her role in the discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen (surname only) |
| GERSHWIN | ___ Prize, awarded to Willie Nelson by the Library of Congress in 2015 |
| AJA | 1977 Steely Dan album that made the Library of Congress "United States National Recording Registry" list |
| GLORIAESTEFAN | Coming Out of the Dark singer who with her husband Emilio won the 2019 Gershwin Prize: 2 wds. |
| INDEPENDENCEAVE | D C address of the Library of Congress |
| ADAMS | *He signed the act establishing the Library of Congress |
| RECORDINGS | The Library of Congress has over 3.6 million of them |
| GASOLINA | Daddy Yankee hit that has been preserved by the Library of Congress |
| HERBERTPUTNAM | American librarian who, with Charles Martel, developed the Library of Congress Classification system (7,6) |
| GANDHI | Famous proponent of nonviolence and India's Father of the Nation, he is considered by many as the most deserving person never to be awarded the Peace Prize |
| BLONDIE | The Library of Congress has opened a show dedicated to her |
| PUTNAM | Herbert -, American librarian who originally developed the Library of Congress Classification system (6) |
