| LOOKFOR | Vera Lynn sang, ... The Silver Lining (4,3) |
| ENGLAND | Vera Lynn sang, "There'll always be an ...; While there's a country lane; Wherever there's a cottage |
| MAGENTA | Meant to change the silver lining to a reddish purple (7) |
| OUTRAGE | A bit much, the silver lining; it's a disgrace! (7) |
| BLUEBIRD | Vera Lynn sang about one of these flying over the white cliffs of Dover(8) |
| ENSA | Organisation in which Vera Lynn sang (4) |
| GERALDO | Bandleader in the 1943 Vera Lynn film We'll Meet Again (7) |
| STRIFE | "A heart full of joy and gladness; Will always banish sadness and ...; So always look for the silver lining; And try to find the sunny side of life" |
| MEAGRE | Only the silver lining is rather scanty |
| IMAGIST | Initially inauspicious cloud has silver lining for poet (7) |
| ADAGIOS | Silver lining in farewell dances. (7) |
| PASSAGE | Silver lining old-fashioned hallway (7) |
| PROVERB | Every cloud has a silver lining, say (7) |
| BERKELEY | The London square in which a nightingale sang, according to Vera Lynn |
| CLIFFS | "There'll be blue birds over the white ... of Dover; Tomorrow, just you wait and see," sang Vera Lynn |
| AFTER | In The White Cliffs Of Dover, Vera Lynn promised, "There'll be love and laughter; And peace ever ... |
| BLITZ | Aerial bombardment, and the title of a 1962 musical for which Vera Lynn recorded a contribution (5) |
| WELLMEETAGAIN | Song by Vera Lynn (2'2,4,5) |
| MEET | We'll ___ Again, song by Vera Lynn |
| AGAIN | We'll Meet_, 1939 song made famous by Vera Lynn (5) |