| FRONTROW | Three of the fifteen best seats? |
| CATBIRDS | They have the best seat? |
| BOX | Fight for the best seat? (3) |
| EDEN | The second of the 15 prime ministers who served during the 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II (4) |
| TAIL | Found on the other side of one of the 15 (4) |
| PORTMANTEAUWORD | Term for each of the 15 theme answers in this puzzle (the clues of which are asterisked) |
| TRIBE | A ___ Called Quest (hip hop group that's one of the 15 acts nominated for admission to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday) |
| RAGE | ___ Against the Machine (another of the 15 nominated acts) |
| RAREEARTH | Description of any of the 15 lanthanide elements, scandium or yttrium (4,5) |
| CERIUM | Most abundant of the 15 metallic elements comprising the lanthanide, or rare earth, series; atomic no. 58 (6) |
| DRUG | Jabbed without resistance with one of the 15? (4) |
| CENTERINGSQUARE | Like any of the 15 on this row |
| KATE | Bush who's one of the 15 nominated acts |
| IRONMAIDEN | Heavy-metal band that's one of the 15 nominated acts |
| MISSY | Elliott who's one of the 15 nominated acts |
| TREE | Item hidden in each of the 15-letter answers in this puzzle |
| THREEMENINABOAT | 14, one of the 15, and 10's other half were a menace, with me a bonnie mess inside ... (5,3,2,1,4) |
| NFL | Org. behind 14 of the 15 most-watched TV broadcasts in U.S. history |
| SHERYLCROW | "All I Wanna Do" singer who's one of the 15 nominated acts |
| MTSINAI | Where Moses receives the Fifteen Commandments in Mel Brooks's "History of the World: Part I," for short |
