| Christmas songs |
| The "me" in "nothing can stop me now," in a 1962 #1 hit |
| Long narrow hilltop |
| 1984 top ten Duran Duran hit |
| 1964 Beatles song |
| 2005 Black Eyed Peas hit that Pitchfork called "so monumentally vacuous, slapped together and tossed-off that it truly tests the definition of 'song.' |
| Creatively-censored 4/28/10 New York Post headline about the foul-mouthed Senate/Wall Street hearings |
| 2000 Best Song Oscar winner |
| Wayside stop |
| Angelic toppers |
| Emulate Topsy |
| Actress stops further action |
| Auto stopovers |
| Actress who co-starred in "Havana," 1990 |
| Specialty ___ (topics one is an expert in) |
| A good band pic on the CD, songs that will appeal to music producers, etc.? |
| Target of Bill Maher's "New Rule: stop wearing plastic shoes |
| Cryptography topics |
| #1 song between Phil Collins's "Groovy Kind of Love" and The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West" (1988 wasn't good for music, apparently) |
| ___ America (channel that airs "Top Gear" in the US) |
| Moody's top rating |
| Almost dozen Grateful Dead song "The ___ |
| A WWI song urged us to keep them burning |
| Ad majorem __ gloriam" (Jesuit motto) |
| Songbirds |
| Alternative title of this puzzle, in view of what can be placed in front of the answers to the 10 asterisked clues |
| Foolishly rent Tampa's penthouses, for example (10) |
| Referee's song to losers |
| Top of a long narrow hill |
| 1973 Rolling Stones #1 song |