| BANDONTHERUN | The best-selling studio album of 1974 in the UK, by Paul McCartney and Wings; a description of an active Fanfara dei Bersaglieri ensemble in the Italian army |
| HIGHWAYTOHEAVEN | Opposite of an AC/DC song? |
| THRILLER | Best-selling studio album of all time (33x platinum) |
| TESLA | Nikola, inventor of an alternating-current electic motor |
| DROPLEAF | Table where the sides lower down - and a description of an item of foliage falling in autumn, say! (4-4) |
| SPEC | Informal or short word either for a technical standard or a description of an invention for which a patent is sought (4) |
| ORSON | US director and actor known for his film "Citizen Kane" who also filmed a documentary called "F for Fake" In 1974 in Mallorca (5) |
| WELLES | US director and actor known for his film "Citizen Kane" who also filmed a documentary called "F for Fake" In 1974 in Mallorca (6) |
| ENDLESSSUMMER | Beach Boys album of 1974 |
| ANKA | Top 10 album of 1974 |
| COURTANDSPARK | Double-platinum Joni Mitchell album of 1974 |
| POSHSPICE | She was born Apr. 17, 1974 in Hertfordshire, England |
| FLAP | A motion or sound of a flag, sail or a bird's wing; a hinged leaf of a table; a pet door; a loose pendant part of an envelope or a tent, for example; a large broad mushroom; or, a fluster/tizz (4) |
| FLUTTER | A polysemous word for a modest wager or bet; a heartbeat; a flap of a wing; a bat of one's eyelashes; a sensation or stir; a group of butterflies or flags; or, a fairy formation (7) |
| INFLATION | The change in price of goods and services over time gauged in the UK by the Consumer Prices Index (9) |
| DETINUE | Crime of wrongful detention of property, replaced in the UK by the tort of wrongful interference with goods in 1978 (7) |
| CROQUET | Lawn game played with mallets and hoops that was popularised in the UK by John Jaques when he packaged the game with sets of rules in the 1850s (7) |
| KENNYLYNCH | London-born singer-songwriter and actor who appears on the cover of 1973 album Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings |
| AIRWAVES | Brand of sugarfree chewing gum launched in the UK by the Wm Wrigley Jr Company in 1997 (8) |
| CHIEFRABBI | Leader of a country's Jewish community, a position held in the UK by Ephraim Mirvis since 2013 (5,5) |
