| YESTER | Word linking with "day" to form the title of a song by The Beatles (6) |
| RENTA | Word linking with "ghost" to form the title of a 1980s children's series with characters including Harold Meaker, Miss Popov and Hazel the McWitch (5) |
| MARKET | Word linking with day, garden, place and town (6) |
| MALADJUSTED | Psychologically incapable of dealing with day-to-day situations |
| SYNDICATE | Group insect with day to transform (9) |
| SYLVIA | Girl in the title of a song by Dr Hook & the Medicine Show (6) |
| MEXICO | Country just south of the US ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| SMELLY | ___ Cat, the title of a song sung by Phoebe in Friends in 1995 (6) |
| TEENIE | Word in the title of a song about a polka-dot bikini |
| CHASER | Drink that follows a hard-liquor shot ... or the title of a song on Carrie Underwood's latest album |
| TAKEON | ___ Me a song by the popular '80s band A-Ha from their album Hunting High and Low: 2 wds. |
| FEELME | Part of Tommy's plea, in a song by the Who |
| BEURRE | Word linking with "petit" for the name of a French biscuit or "blanc" for a variety of emulsified sauce for seafood (6) |
| POWDER | Word linking with blue for a pastel shade (one of the Pantone colours), or with baking for an ingredient used to make scones, soda bread or naan (6) |
| MALLOW | Word linking with "marsh" for a plant, a fluffy confection or a town in County Cork, Ireland (6) |
| VIOLET | Word linking with dog/wood, hairy or sweet for three species of wild flowers found in woodlands and chalk grasslands; a symbol of modesty and faithfulness (6) |
| PLATES | Word linking with "book" for labels at the front of bibliophilic matter traditionally bearing copper-engraved ex libris, mottos, coats of arms or crests (6) |
| THROAT | Word linking with "lash" for part of a horse's bridle passing under its jawbone (6) |
| BRANDY | Word linking with "butter" for a sauce for Christmas pudding or "snap" for a cream-filled biscuit (6) |
| ANN | Barbara ___ number-one hit released by The Beach Boys in 1965 which was a cover of a song by the Regents |
