| BUIDOI | "Miss Saigon" song with the lyrics "The dust of life conceived in hell and born in strife" |
| LIETOME | 1962 hit with the lyrics "the truth could mean I'd lose you" |
| RALEIGH | Privateer who led two expeditions in search of the fabled lost city of gold, El Dorado, and fathered three sons with Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Bess Throckmorton, including Carew, conceived in the |
| KYOTO | Hit Phoebe Bridgers song with the lyric "The band took the speed train" |
| WASHING | "The purpose of art is _ the dust of daily life off our souls": Pablo Picasso (7) |
| SOS | "Mamma Mia!" song with the lyric "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me" |
| ART | It "washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life," according to Picasso |
| OCANADA | National anthem with the lyric "The True North strong and free!" |
| HEYJUDE | Beatles hit with the lyric "The movement you need is on your shoulder" |
| ALTEREGO | Doechii song with the lyrics "I come through and moods be switchin' / I'm the problem, I'm the villain" |
| TOPSOIL | The dust of the Dust Bowl |
| ADAM | He was "of the dust of the ground" |
| ONTARIO | Where in Canada is the town of Swastika, Where Unity Mitford, friend of Adolf Hitler, was conceived in 1913? (7) |
| BLUESKIES | Irving Berlin song with the lyrics "Noticing the days hurrying by / When you're in love, my, how they fly" |
| DEARGOD | XTC song with the lyrics "Hope you get the letter and / I pray you can make it better down here" |
| PIANO | Ariana Grande song with the lyrics "I'd rather make a song they can play on the radio" |
| AMELIA | Joni Mitchell song with the lyrics "A ghost of aviation / She was swallowed by the sky" |
| EBURIN | A composition of dust of ivory or of bone with a cement. (6) |
| MISHEARD | Like the Beatles lyric "The girl with colitis goes by" for "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes" |
| OROURKE | P J ___, US satirist whose volumes include Holidays in Hell and Holidays in Heck (7) |