| AKINDOFHUSH | There's ____ - a hit for Herman's Hermits in 1967 and the Carpenters in 1976 |
| IMINTOSOMETHING | ____ Good, song that was a UK No. 1 hit for Herman's Hermits in 1964 (2,4,9) |
| INTO | I'm ___ Something Good, hit song for Herman's Hermits in 1964 (4) |
| BEEN | There's ___ a slight change of plans |
| DAYGLO | The Day The World Turned ___, a hit for X-Ray Spex in 1978 (3-3) |
| OATES | O. Henry Award winner for "In the Region of Ice" (1967) and "The Dead" (1973) |
| ODDS | Against All _, a hit for Mariah Carey and Westlife (4) |
| THEEND | Song by The Doors (1967) and The Beatles (1969) (3,3) |
| PLEASEMRPOSTMAN | Song by The Marvelettes covered by The Carpenters in 1975 (6,2,7) |
| ONLYJUST | We've ___ ___ Begun: single released by The Carpenters in 1970 (4,4) |
| KAREN | One of the Carpenters, in 1970s pop |
| OYSTERS | Rosy set off to get the walrus and the carpenter's food (7) |
| ANCHORITES | Hermits in the dilapidated chain store (10) |
| DUOS | Pet Shop Boys and the Carpenters, say (4) |
| YEARSMAYCOMEYEARSMAYGO | The last UK top ten hit for Herman's Hermits, from 1970 |
| THERES | "___ a Kind of Hush" (hit for Herman's Hermits) |
| AKIND | "There's ___ of Hush" (hit for Herman's Hermits) |
| COMMONPEOPLE | Love Of The ____, song first sung in 1967 and a hit for Paul Young in 1983 (6,6) |
| ADAM | Forename of the carpenter in a novel described as "full of the breath of cows and scent of hay" by its author George Eliot (4) |
| RENOWN | HMS ___, name of eight ships of the Royal Navy, the last of which was a Resolution-class submarine launched in 1967 and paid off in 1996 |
