| BETRUE | "It had to be you; I wandered around and finally found the somebody who; Could make me ..., could ma |
| FIREMAN | How could Ma infer that he can go to blazes? (7) |
| CHOIRMEMBER | Could Mom be richer as a singer? (5,6) |
| WERE | Used to be you, I and the Engineers (4) |
| ITHAD | "... to be you," sang Doris Day. "I wandered around and finally found the somebody who; Could make me be true" (2,3) |
| ITHADTO | "... be you," sang Doris Day. "I wandered around and finally found the somebody who" (2,3,2) |
| OTHERS | "Some ... I've seen; Might never be mean; Might never be cross or try to be boss; But they wouldn't do," sang Doris Day in It Had To Be You |
| TOBEY | Name in "It Had to Be You" |
| LOVEDROUGHT | Beyonce song with the lyric "You and me could make it rain now" |
| RECOMMENDED | Ceded that the norm to me could be advocated (11) |
| REARWINDOW | 1954 film based on the short story 'It Had to Be Murder' |
| RASPED | Uttered gratingly that it had to be spread around (6) |
| IRONED | One started to run over a little boy. It had to be decreased (6) |
| HELPED | Take care to include record. It had to be of some assistance (6) |
| EMERSON | Writer who could make me snore (7) |
| LIES | Recline and finally found to have made false statements |
| AXIOMATIC | Man will come in a taxi having wandered around and about -that's self-evident (9) |
| EPITOME | Cooked pie to me could be typical example (7) |
| ANAGRAM | The one for me could be a ragman! |
| SMALLINTESTINE | Long tract? Illness meant it had to be amended (5,9) |
