| HIBBERT | Toots, Jamaican reggae musician who popularised the genre's name in a 1968 song (7) |
| BOB | Reggae musician who popularised the genre world-wide, ... Marley |
| ALT | Word in many music genres' names |
| SCI | Half a rhyming genre name |
| SANJOSE | Place Dionne Warwick was looking for in a 1968 song |
| ROOTS | Levi, British-Jamaican reggae musician and chef noted for his Reggae Reggae sauce (5) |
| MARLEY | Bob, Jamaican reggae musician whose first UK chart hit was No Woman No Cry in 1975 (6) |
| JUDE | Name in a 1968 Beatles hit |
| USSR | BOAC flier's destination in a 1968 song |
| ELENORE | 1968 song by The Turtles that reached number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 7 in the UK |
| DELILAH | 1968 song which begins: I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window ... (7) |
| VANESSA | Miss Redgrave, actress who played Isadora Duncan in a 1968 film (7) |
| HEYJUDE | 1968 song with the lyric "Remember to let her into your heart" |
| LINEMAN | Wichita ___, 1968 song released by Glen Campbell (7) |
| WICHITA | _ Lineman, 1968 song by Glen Campbell (7) |
| SKELTER | Helter ___, 1968 song by The Beatles... |
| MEANIES | Villainous army in a 1968 Beatles film |
| BLACKBIRD | An ouzel or merle esteemed for its mellow song; or, the title of a 1968 song by the "Fab Four" (9) |
| BORNTOBEWILD | 1968 song by US band Steppenwolf whose lyrics coin the term 'heavy metal' and which is considered a prototype of the genre (4,2,2,4) |
| BOBMARLEY | Reggae musician who sang with the Wailers (3,6) |
