| Gaye's genre | 16 |
| Food or music | 13 |
| Devil's purchase | 20 |
| Aretha's genre | 18 |
| Aretha Franklin's music | 27 |
| Al Green genre | 14 |
| "Hot Buttered ___" (1969 Isaac Hayes album) | 53 |
| Word with food or music | 23 |
| Word with food or brother | 25 |
| Word in Cleaver title | 21 |
| Word before mate or food | 24 |
| White's genre | 17 |
| What brevity is to wit | 22 |
| Vital principle | 15 |
| Vital force | 11 |
| TV's Hutch | 14 |
| Thing often sold to Satan | 25 |
| Stax Records genre | 18 |
| Some Motown music | 17 |
| Satan's buy | 15 |
| Sam Cooke's style | 21 |
| R&B offshoot | 16 |
| Pop-music category | 18 |
| Pickett's music | 19 |
| Partner of heart | 16 |
| Not a __ (no one) | 17 |
| Music from the Miracles, e.g. | 29 |
| Marvin Gaye music | 17 |
| Like certain food | 17 |
| Knight music | 12 |
| James Brown has it | 18 |
| James Brown genre | 17 |
| Inner person | 12 |
| Inner being | 11 |
| Hutch, on TV | 12 |
| Heart's companion | 21 |
| He was Hutch on TV | 18 |
| H. T. Webster's "The Timid ___" | 45 |
| Grammy subcategory of Gospel | 28 |
| Genre for Aretha Franklin | 25 |
| Franklin's genre | 20 |
| Faustian commodity | 18 |
| Depth, of a sort | 16 |
| Deeply felt emotion | 19 |
| Dangerous thing to sell | 23 |
| Cuisine featuring collard greens and sweet potato pie | 53 |
| Cleaver's "____ on Ice" | 37 |
| Cleaver's "___ on Ice" | 36 |
| Certain food | 12 |
| CD store section (4) | 20 |
| Brevity's role in wit | 25 |
| Brevity, to wit | 15 |
| Body partner | 12 |
| Blues Traveler's "Save His ___" | 45 |
| Blues musician's asset | 26 |
| Blues alternative | 17 |
| Beelzebub's buy | 19 |
| Aretha's specialty | 22 |
| Aretha's realm | 18 |
| Aretha's music | 18 |
| Aretha has it | 13 |
| Aretha Franklin, the Queen of ___ | 33 |
| Aretha Franklin music | 21 |
| Aretha Franklin genre | 21 |
| Anima | 5 |
| "The ___ of a New Machine" (Pulitzer-winning book by Tracy Kidder) | 76 |
| "Or what shall a man give in exchange for his ___?": Mark 8:37 | 72 |
| "Ooh! My ___" (1958 hit for Little Richard) | 53 |
| "O my prophetic ___!": Hamlet | 39 |
| "Chicken Soup for the ___" | 36 |
| "Body and ___" | 24 |
| "___ on Ice" | 22 |
| 'Heart and --' | 22 |
| ''___ on Ice'' (Eldridge Cleaver book) | 54 |
| ___ food | 8 |
| Stock in the "Chicken Soup" books? | 44 |
| Relative of a kind | 18 |
| David and Joyce are great buds? | 31 |
| Band with the 1998 hit "Circles" | 42 |
| Whole-___ (hearty) | 18 |
| Chitterlings and cornbread, e.g. | 32 |
| Some cuisine | 12 |
| Collard greens, chitlins, etc. | 30 |
| Chitterlings, collard greens, etc. | 34 |
| Chitterlings e.g. | 18 |
| Chitlins and ham hocks, e.g. | 28 |
| Grits and chitlins | 18 |
| Expressing deep feeling | 23 |
| Deeply expressive | 17 |
| With deep feeling | 17 |
| Hair product featured in "Coming to America" | 54 |
| Rapper with the 2009 hit "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" | 59 |
| Rapper with the #1 hit "Crank That" | 45 |
| Hip-hop's Sister ___ | 24 |
| Passionate buss | 15 |
| Sam & Dave hit covered by the Blues Brothers | 48 |
| 1967 hit for Sam & Dave | 27 |
| Ultimatum from Satan? | 21 |
| Mr. or Ms. Right | 16 |
| This bud's for you | 22 |