| TULSA | Where Gene Pitney was only 24 hours from (5) |
| MECCA | Gene Pitney song that starts, "I live on the west side" |
| HAIFA | Middle Eastern city where Gene Simmons was born |
| TIOGA | Texas town where Gene Autry was born in 1907 |
| BOWES | Pitney ___ postage meters |
| WELLADAY | Alas, in good health for only 24 hours (8) |
| ONEDAY | Only 24 hours, but it's in the vague future (3,3) |
| WORKADAY | Employment for only 24 hours is quite usual (8) |
| GENE | - - - Pitney, 24 Hours From Tulsa singer (4) |
| FOUR | Gene Pitney hit, Twenty ___ Hours from Tulsa |
| HELLOMARYLOU | This Gene Pitney number was a hit for Ricky Nelson in 1961 (5,4,3) |
| FROM | Gene Pitney hit, Twenty Four Hours ... Tulsa |
| PITY | "Town Without ___" by Gene Pitney |
| TRUELOVE | What "never runs smooth," in a 1963 Gene Pitney hit |
| ISR | Nat. where Gene Simmons was born |
| ISRAEL | Where Gene Simmons of Kiss was born |
| DAHOMEY | Home in 24 hours from Benin, as it was |
| TOMORROWNIGHT | 24 hours from this evening (8,5) |
| ROLLINGSTONES | For the first LP of which UK rock group did Gene Pitney play piano and The Hollies join in with tambourine and maracas and banged coins on empty bottles? (7,6) |
| GENEVA | Where Gene and Virginia get together (6) |
