| LYRICS | The words to a song (6) |
| LYRIC | A line from the words to a song (5) |
| HUM | What to do when you don't know the words to a song |
| LYRICIST | Writer of the words to a song (8) |
| SYNC | Lip-___ (mouth the words to a song) |
| ACTION | 'Suit the ___ to the word, the word to the ___' (Hamlet) (6) |
| LALALA | [I can't remember the words to this song] |
| FRIEND | Give the word to pass by a Quaker (6) |
| TONGUE | Mum's the word: To withhold comment in the face of temptation is to hold your ___ |
| SESAME | Just the word to open with (6) |
| SITOUT | Pass on, as dancing to a song |
| MYDARLINGCLEMENTINE | Henry Fonda western, and words to a song about a 'forty-niner' (2,7,10) |
| ECCLESIASTES | Book of the Old Testament that is the source of the words to Pete Seeger's song Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season) |
| ANDREWBARTONPATERSON | Who wrote the words to Waltzing Matilda? (6,6,8) |
| ROSSETTI | Christina, poet who wrote the words to the carol In The Bleak Midwinter (8) |
| OVERTHERE | "So prepare, say a prayer; Send the word, send the word to beware; We'll be over, we're coming over; And we won't come back till it's over, ...," sang the GIs in WWI (4,5) |
| MOUTH | How to form the words to hum about (5) |
| PRAYINGFAIL | Forgetting the words to the Our Father, e.g.? |
| BATES | Katharine Lee ?, poet who authored the words to anthem America the Beautiful |
| JOHNNYMERCER | Lyricist born 11/18/1909 who wrote the words to the 10 songs with asterisked clues |
