| HAWKINS | Edwin, gospel choir master whose Oh Happy Day reached no. 2 in 1969's UK charts (7) |
| ORCHESTRA | I'm leaving choir master to sort out the musicians (9) |
| VERMEER | Dutch master whose treatment of shadow and light in his paintings including Girl Interrupted at her Music, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Astronomer and The Lacemaker is thought to have been aided by |
| NFL | Group whose Ohio teams are the Bengals and the Browns: Abbr. |
| TAVERNER | Composer and polyphonic master whose life is the subject of an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies (8) |
| LARKIN | Artist known as the "Curtain Master" whose portraits of James l's courtiers including George Villiers and Philip Herbert capture the detail of Jacobean costume (6) |
| POINTER | The ___ Sisters, U.S. R&B group whose song Automatic reached No 2 in the UK charts in 1984 (7) |
| OTTAWAN | Pop duo whose song D.I.S.C.O. reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1980 (7) |
| DOJACAT | US singer born Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini whose single Say So reached No 2 in the UK charts (4,3) |
| NOMOREILOVEYOUS | Song covered by Annie Lennox that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1995 (2,4,1,4,4) |
| THEWHO | Band whose song My Generation reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1965 (3,3) |
| NUPTIAL | Latin translation gets informed of the happy day (7) |
| HOTRODS | Pub rock band from Essex, fronted by Barrie Masters, whose biggest hit, Do Anything You Wanna Do, wa |
| AGADOO | Song by Black Lace that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1984 (6) |
| ANYWHERE | Song by Rita Ora that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 2017 (8) |
| HORSES | Crazy song by The Osmonds that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1972 (6) |
| COOLFORCATS | Song by Squeeze that reached No. 2 in the UK charts in 1979 (4,3,4) |
| RUSSELL | Ken, English director of films including 1969's Women In Love and 1975's Tommy (7) |
| FREEDFROMDESIRE | Eurodance song by Italian singer Gala, which reached No. 2 in the UK charts (5,4,6) |
| MACLEAN | Alistair, Scottish author of 1969's Puppet on a Chain (7) |
