| ENRIQUEIGLESIAS | He hit #1 this year -- as his father did in 1981 |
| MARIAHCAREY | She hit #1 this year -- as she has over a dozen times before |
| CRONUS | The son of Uranus and Ge. which of the Titans. his father, did Zeus dethrone to become ruler of the world? (6) |
| NSYNC | Quintet who hit #1 this year |
| EST | It starts in Toronto on Nov. 1, this year |
| DUNE | "___: Part Two" (movie that hit #1 this month) |
| ANI | Singer who made her Broadway debut this year as Persephone in Hadestown |
| LAWSON | Charles -, actor who returned to Coronation Street this year as Jim Mcdonald (6) |
| FOXCUB | Is this little one as sly as his father ? (3-3) |
| MARDI | "___ Gras Carnival" (1898; one of the 25 movies added to the National Film Registry this year, as announced Dec. 14; 13 of the others herein have asterisked clues) |
| ALMARTINO | He hit #1 in 1952 with "Here in My Heart" |
| JIMMYBOYD | He hit #1 at age 12 in 1952 with "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" |
| JOHNNYRIVERS | He hit #1 in 1966 with "Poor Side of Town" |
| ANKA | He hit #1 in '59 just before Presley |
| PIPER | Tom-tom heard as his father was announced (5) |
| OBAMA | President with the same first and last name as his father |
| LADE | "... my father did ___ you with a heavy yoke" ( 1 King 12:11) |
| EDWARDVIII | King for less than a year as he stepped down to marry Wallis Simpson; the only British sovereign to abdicate voluntarily (6,1,1,1,1) |
| MERVGRIFFIN | He hit #1 in 1950 with "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts," then became a talk show legend |
| DONNYOSMOND | He hit #1 at age 13 with "Go Away Little Girl" |
