| GODS | "Whom the ... love, die young" (Byron) (4) |
| LET | "Don't __ Your Sweet Love Die" (bluegrass standard) |
| EGOISTS | Those glorying in self-love die first in El Salvador |
| ONLY | "___ the Good Die Young" |
| CUBE | Maybe die young, close to home (4) |
| JOEL | Billy ___ Only the Good Die Young singer |
| FARON | Singer Young with the #1 country hit "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young" |
| NOONEBUTYOU | Song recorded by the remaining three members of Queen in 1997, subtitled Only the Good Die Young |
| BILLYJOEL | "Only the Good Die Young" performer |
| ANNIELEE | Actress who plays Michelle in Live Fast, Die Young (5,3) |
| KESHA | One-named singer with "Die Young" |
| TOO | "___ Old to Die Young" (Miles Teller miniseries) |
| ALAS | "__, the love of women!": Byron |
| MOON | By the light of what will Byron no long go a-roaming? (4) |
| BOND | Dictum meum pactum : goodness and wisdom Byron revised over days (2,4,2,2,4) |
| TWAS | "...___ but the wind": Byron |
| YOYO | Even Byron and Tyson go up and down (4) |
| THEE | "Fare -- Well", Byron poem (4) |
| ONTO | Having become aware of letters from Byron today (4) |
| LAMB | Lady Caroline _, 19th-century aristocrat and lover of Byron (4) |
