| ASSUMEDNAME | Rock Me Amadeus regularly sung as Falco, for instance |
| KESTREL | Small falcon such as Falco tinnunculus (7) |
| SNATCH | Some song regularly sung at church |
| AUSTRIANS | W. Amadeus Mozart and "Rock Me Amadeus" singer Falco, e.g. |
| AUSTRIAN | Like Falco, late singer of "Rock Me Amadeus" |
| BFALCO | Singer with the 1986 #1 hit "Rock Me Amadeus" |
| FALCO | Who had a worldwide number one with Rock Me Amadeus? (5) |
| WHATSTHIS | Song sung as Jack Skellington explores Christmas Town for the first time |
| EDIE | Falco known for 'Nurse Jackie' and not 'Rock Me Amadeus' |
| OLD | Freddie Jackson "Rock Me Tonight (For ___ Times Sake)" |
| LANGSYNE | Auld - -; meaning "for old times' sake", Robert Burns' poem sung as an anthem at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve (4,4) |
| HARLECH | Its men sung, as king facing execution heartily went to church (7) |
| PORTABEUL | Fast Gaelic tune often sung as mouth music (4-1-4) |
| YODELED | Sung, as in the Swiss Alps |
| PSALM | Hymn perhaps sung as late Mass starts (5) |
| AGNUSDEI | Section of mass that's somewhat dignified, sung as offered up |
| EIEIO | Letters sung as mi, mi, re, re, do |
| NATTERS | They are sung as the worker sews down the edges (7) |
| ANTIPHON | Sung as a refrain to aunty listening on mobile endlessly (8) |
| SYNE | Word sung as the year changes |
