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Here are the songs referenced in Crosswoods puzzles throughout the weeks, months, and years of crosswording. Enjoy the eclecticism!

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37-Across: _____ it ever was, repeated line in “Once In A Lifetime”

22-Down: Gray who sang “Drift Away” (ya know, the song Uncle Kracker covered)

33-Across: Band behind “Steal My Sunshine”

45-Across: Song supposedly inspired by Eric Clapton’s secret love for Pattie Boyd

50-Across: Addison Rae tune with a soda name

45-Across: Love song by Ricky Martin

24-Down: _____ 65, band behind “Blue (Da Ba Dee)”

17-Across: K-Ci & JoJo hit song

21-Across: Sweet Dreams Are Made of Seven Nation Army, for example

47-Across: With “The,” series that opens with Tom Waits’ “Way Down in the Hole”

62-Across: ____ Only Just Begun, song by The Carpenters

44-Across: Norwegian composer of “In the Hall of the Mountain King”

51-Across: Little artist with the big hit “The Loco-Motion”

8-Down: Blue Ridge Mountains, ______ River (John Denver lyrics)

25-Down: Four dead in _____, song lyrics about the Kent State shooting

2-Down: Armageddon theme song performers

37-Down: ____ say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed.

59-Across: Name spelled out like a part of 20-across in “The Kinks” song

60-Across: Timespan sung about by the “Barenaked Ladies”

33-Across: Fountains of Wayne name

24-Down: ...if you feel like loving me, if you got the _____, I second that emotion, Smokey Robinson lyrics

40-Across: ____ No Mountain High Enough

40-Across: James Brown lyrics after an intro shout

6-Across: Word before and after “Lady” in a Bob Dylan track

43-Across: Luis who wrote “Despacito”

55-Down: Spanish word in the song subtitled “Whatever Will Be, Will Be”

14-Across: Ashanti collaborator on “Always On Time”

36-Across: When doubled, band responsible for “Hungry Like the Wolf”

52-Across: With “The”, band who sang about a “wild thing”

12-Down: _____ Do Is Win, so say DJ Khaled

59-Across: Cars that sound like the band that made “Drive My Car” and the starred clues

10-Down: Syllables repeated in a Rihanna song with the lyrics “Now that it’s rainin’ more than ever”

26-Down: _____ Q (CCR song written by Dale Hawkins)

17-Across: See how the _____ sets. Call for the captain ashore, let me go home, The Beach Boys lyrics

32-Across: La _____, ZZ Top hit

22-Across: Drug that lent its nickname to a Billie Eilish song

47-Across: Weird Al song parodying a Michael Jackson hit

29-Across: _______, I’d be in trouble if you left me now (The Chi-Lites lyrics)

4-Down: Pop punk song that inspired “Jone Waste Yore Toye Monme Yorall Rediii The Voice Insoide Moye Yedd”

42-Down: Twain who sang “Man! I Feel Like a 40-down!”

1-Across: Pinball Wizard rockers

54-Down: ____ She Lovely, Stevie Wonder hit

30-Across: 1, 2 Step singer

36-Across: Season of the Witch singer

54-Across: ...and ______ hero comes along, Mariah Carey lyrics

51-Down: Title of hit songs for U2 and Metallica

52-Across: If _____ Leave This World Alive, Flogging Molly song

63-Across: Phil Collins song that makes everyone a drummer for three seconds

30-Across: ______ Zone, 80s Kenny Loggins tune

12-Down: Woman’s name that is track one on “Songs of Leonard Cohen”

22-Down: One in the band singing “You Get What You Give”, supposedly

51-Down: Travelin’ Band band, in brief

35-Across: Bulls On Parade band, to fans

44-Across: What Argentina shouldn’t do for Evita

20-Across: Rap song that seems to feature the bassline of “Under Pressure”

10-Across: You’re The ____, The Karate Kid song

9-Down: First word to describe a “yellow polkadot bikini”

24-Down: ___ Sha La La, song by Haley Heynderickx

50-Down: Singer of “Devils Haircut”

62-Across: ____ Time, 1997 song by Sublime

22-Across: First track on Bon Iver, sharing a name with a city in Western Australia

44-Across: With “The”, R&B group who sang “Love Train”

34-Down: _____ It a Pity, song off All Things Must Pass

44-Across: ______ or never, but I ain’t gonna live forever. ‚Äî Bon Jovi

53-Down: _____ Lonesome I Could Cry, song by Hank Williams

23-Across: “When the _____ Breaks,” cover by Led Zeppelin

34-Across: “All Tomorrow’s _______,” song by the Velvet Underground and Nico

3-Down: Indian honorific used in a famous The Who song

46-Across: Pixies song with the lyrics, “Don’t know about you, but I am un Chien Andalusia...wanna grow up to be”

19-Across: I may be dumb but I’m not a _____. I’m just a sucker with no self-esteem, The Offspring lyric

34-Across: AC/DC song with the lyrics, “I’m a power load...watch me explode”

9-Across: Hardcore punk band whose song “Straight Edge” became the eventual basis for the movement of the same name

36-Across: Time frame with eight days in a popular Beatles’ song

24-Across: Someone’s got to help me ___, lyrics from a Father John Misty song called “Hollywood Forever Cemetery”

8-Down: _______ Feeling, Black Eyed Peas song

17-Across: Tangled Up in ____, Bob Dylan song

55-Across: ____ Mine, 1970 Beatles’ song

5-Down: I like the way you work _____ diggity, Blackstreet lyric

16-Down: Bulgarian capital or song by Clairo

8-Down: Taylor Swift song with the lyrics “You’re not my homeland anymore so what am I defending now?”

43-Across: Here _____ Your Man, song by the Pixies

5-Down: What Common used to love in his 1994 song

45-Across: In _______ Tonight, song with a well-known drum fill

26-Across: Start of the song title that starts “Desmond has a barrow in the market place, Molly is the singer in a band”

33-Down: Alanis Morissette song with the lyric “It’s like rain on your wedding day”

11-Across: The Replacements song that says “Something meets boy and something meets girl. They both look the same”

21-Across: Pepper rank, lyrically

25-Across: How Do You Mend A Broken Heart or “Tragedy”

5-Down: D’___ Mak’er, Led Zeppelin song

27-Across: First words after “For a smile they can share the night. It goes...” in Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’

45-Across: ______ on the Storm, The Doors song

34-Across: Hendrix song with the lyrics “Well, I think I’ll go turn myself off and go on down, all the way down. Really ain’t no use in me hanging around.”

40-Across: Trust _____, song sung by Kaa to Mowgli

11-Down: Artist who sings “May It Be” from Lord of the Rings

10-Down: Outkast hit with the line “Lend me some sugar. I am your neighbor.”

1-Across: I’m _______ baby, so why don’t you kill me?, Beck lyrics

2-Down: Actor Don who is featured on Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA” music video

22-Down: Alan Jackson song about cracking one open

36-Across: It Don’t ______ Thing if It Ain’t Got Swing, Ella Fitzgerald song

39-Across: Directive to “All Ye Faithful”

1-Down: Ziggy Stardust’s rock