| BLUEGRASS | Type of US music with roots in British folk music |
| PREPPY | Characteristic of a type of US school pupil |
| ARTS | Type of US mortgage with interest rates determined by credit risk (3-1) |
| SHAY | Type of US geared industrial locomotive with vertical cylinders (4) |
| RYE | Type of US whiskey which by law must be distilled from a mash containing at least 51% of this cereal (3) |
| ROAST | Type of US show where a guest of honour is subject to jokes at their expense (5) |
| TRIDENT | Type of US submarine-launched ballistic missile that replaced Poseidon and Polaris from 1979 |
| PREP | A type of US secondary school (4) |
| VAUGHANWILLIAMS | Ralph --, composer inspired by British folk songs and music of the Tudor period (7,8) |
| MEDLEYS | Word, with roots in hand-to-hand combat and also variegated/pied cloths, for mixtures or olios, whether flavours, fruits, music, swimming strokes or vegetables in Scotch broths (7) |
| SPAN | Steeleye ____, British folk rock band formed in 1969 (4) |
| MEN | 2022 British folk horror film featuring Rory Kinnear in multiple roles (3) |
| EPIS | One with roots in the Church of Eng. |
| ABORIGINE | Native of Australia with roots in Lincoln (9) |
| TECHNO | Music genre with roots in Detroit |
| ACACIA | One with roots in California a US agency arrests |
| SHERWOODFOREST | Unusually shrewd foe with roots in area associated with Robin Hood (8,6) |
| SOUL | Genre with roots in Black gospel music |
| EPISCOPAL | Church with roots in the Church of England |
| BEBOP | Music genre with roots in swing |
