| ONONE | When the down beat comes in music |
| APOLICEMANSLOTISNOTAHAPPYONE | This line of song may explain the down beat (1,10,3,2,3,1,5,3) |
| FLAY | This beat comes from loud 'music' (4) |
| WALES | The only team that 8 Down beat in regulation time in the 2016 Euro; their other wins came either in extra time or via penalty shootouts |
| CLEAN | With 32-Down, beat an opponent soundly |
| DUCK | Eiderdown, the down feathers of the common eider -- which is a type of this bird -- are used in some quilts and pillows. In Pericles (act 3, prologue) is the following reference: "...the grisly north |
| EMORAP | Down beats? |
| DERELICT | The French get direct when it comes to the down-and-out (8) |
| SADSACK | Asks cad about the down-in-the-mouth (3-4) |
| CASCADE | Bag the rascal in the down pour (7) |
| SOLOW | Like the "Down in the Valley" valley |
| WEARINESS | "____ / Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth / Finds the down pillow hard" (Cymbeline) |
| PARTIILAM | End of a trilogy, and a phrase that hints at each circled word when entering it in the Down direction |
| DEPOSITS | The despot is about to discover the down payments (8) |
| BCC | Loop in, on the down-low |
| EIDERDOWN | Seabird from which comes the down used to make quilts (5,4) |
| DUVET | A soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider (5) |
| ANY | "... card, ___ card" (Last week: The two diagonally hidden 18-letter titles were "Up the Down Staircase" and "Upstairs, |
| DERELICTS | Ed's last teacart gets left with the cries of the down-and-outs (9) |
| ASHES | The cineraria plant got its name because the down on its leaves looks like what? (5) |
