| ANDRADAY | Grammy-winning soul singer who'll perform "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl today |
| SING | "Lift Every Voice and ___" |
| DIVA | I'd go back to Virginia and sing at the opera |
| REBA | With 14-Across: country great who'll sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" at the Super Bowl today |
| LIFT | "___ Every Voice and Sing" |
| LANI | "Lift Every Voice" author Guinier |
| RENEE | Fleming who was the first opera singer to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl (2014) |
| RAE | Grammy winning soul singer Corinne Bailey ___ |
| IRMA | Grammy-winning soul singer Thomas |
| ARIE | Grammy-winning soul singer India.__ |
| RENEEFLEMING | Opera singer who sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl in 2014 and received the National Medal of Arts in 2012: 2 wds. |
| WEEKND | The ___ , Canadian R&B artist who headlined the halftime show at the Super Bowl in 2021 (6) |
| INFANT | "In every cry of every Man / In every ____'s cry of fear / In every voice, in every ban / The mind-forg'd manacles I hear" (William Blake, London) |
| ALICIAKEYS | Singer who performed "My Boo" with Usher at the Super Bowl LVIII halftime show |
| PIPS | Gladys Knight & The _, Grammy-winning soul group (4) |
| HUMP | Sing, at the piano, the blues (4) |
| EMELI | Part of anthem elicited Ms Sande to sing at the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony (5) |
| BRADY | 80 for ___ (2023 movie about four friends who travel to see their favorite quarterback, Tom, at the Super Bowl) |
| USHER | Singer who'll be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show on February 11th, as announced in a funny ad over the weekend |
| YODEL | Sing at the top of one's range? (5) |
