| RHYTHMS | Describing regular beats in music, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (7) |
| RHYTHM | Describing beat, cadence, flow or tempo in music or a harmonious sequence of colours or elements in art, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (6) |
| RHYME | What each of the longest words in 17A, 65A, 10D and 25D famously lacks |
| CLAVE | In music, one of a pair of wooden sticks struck together to make a hollow sound (5) |
| AARDVARK | Which animal comes first in the English dictionary? (8) |
| SYNCOPATION | Displacement of beats in music |
| SYNCOPATE | Displace beats in music |
| STRENGTHS | Assets (Also, the longest word in English with only one vowel) (9) |
| MOIST | Adjective that's been called "one of the most hated words in the English language" |
| RHYMED | King praised in music, one note missing in verse |
| XIS | Greek letters near the end of the English dictionary |
| TEMPO | Casual employee with love for beat in music? (5) |
| ARSIS | Up-beat in music |
| RAGTIME | Cleaner beat in music |
| CLARISSA | One of the longest novels in the English language, also called The History of a Young Lady (8) |
| SOUPSPOONS | The longest word containing only letters from the second half of the alphabet |
| PAUL | ___ Benedict who played Harry Bentley the English neighbor in the '70s sitcom The Jeffersons which is one of the longest-running sitcoms |
| TAIT | Who directed The Short History of the Kelly Gang (1906), at the time one of the longest narrative films set in Australia? (4) |
| ORINOCO | Flowing from Venezuela to Colombia, one of the longest rivers in South America; or, one of the Wombl |
| ELBOW | The most sensuous word in the English language, according to Philip Marlow in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective |
