| SPRINGTIME | Mel Brooks classic The Producers contained the exquisitely insensitive (and funny) song, ... For Hit |
| WOOSTER | PG Wodehouse comic character and member of the exquisitely idle rich, Bertie ... |
| IDLE | Monty Python member and funny song guy Eric |
| CREMATION | The whole universe contained the beginning of the mind and the end of the body (9) |
| SAUROPOD | The name of a dinosaur subgroup which contained the largest land animals that ever lived. The group was marked by large size, a long neck and tail, a four-legged stance, and a herbivorous diet. |
| BLAZINGSADDLES | Mel Brooks classic |
| IGOR | Hunchback in a Mel Brooks classic |
| ITALIANCONCERTO | Volume two of JS Bach's Clavier-Ubung contained the ____ and the Overture in the French Style |
| LAYASIDE | Save traditional song and hoped-for hit song (3,5) |
| REVOLVER | 1966 studio album by The Beatles that contained the song Eleanor Rigby (8) |
| ACTON | Food writer whose 1845 book Modern Cookery for Private Families contained the first recipe for Christmas pudding (5) |
| ICEPICKS | Arctic epic K.S. Smith made contained the right tools for the job (35) |
| OPENINGS | Funny song about corral with initially insecure gates, for example (8) |
| COLDPLAY | British rock band formed in 1997, known for hits like "Yellow" and "Fix You," and for their global "Music of the Spheres" tour. (8) |
| ASSASSIN | Couple of fools from the heart of Nottingham responsible for hit after hit (8) |
| JJABRAMS | TV producer and screenwriter responsible for hit shows such as Lost, Fringe and Person of Interest |
| SPENDER | The musical Sweet Charity contained the popular song, Big ... |
| BEATLES | Band whose song "Revolution 9," when played backward, supposedly contained the message spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's songs |
| POINTER | The ___ Sisters, U.S. girl group noted for hits including Automatic and Jump (For My Love) (7) |
| ARK | Wooden chest which contained the tables of Jewish law in the First Temple in Jerusalem (3) |
