| Knock | 5 |
| Blow | 4 |
| Cyndi Lauper's "She ___" | 38 |
| Monk music | 10 |
| Style of jazz | 13 |
| Conk on the bean | 16 |
| Early jazz | 10 |
| Dizzy's jazz style | 22 |
| Jazz music | 10 |
| Early modern jazz | 17 |
| Certain jazz style | 18 |
| Brain or bean | 13 |
| '40s jazz | 13 |
| Whack or thwack | 15 |
| Tiger Beat alternative | 22 |
| Thwack or whack | 15 |
| The Ramones' "Blitzkrieg ___" | 43 |
| Syncopated rhythm | 17 |
| Some of that jazz | 17 |
| Punch lightly | 13 |
| Nerf-ball-to-the-noggin blow | 28 |
| Music since the 40's | 24 |
| Monk's style | 16 |
| Kidz ___ Kids | 13 |
| Jazz type | 9 |
| Jazz of the late 40's | 25 |
| Jazz of the '40s | 20 |
| Hit on the head playfully | 25 |
| Hit on the bean | 15 |
| Fast-tempo jazz | 15 |
| Fast-paced jazz style | 21 |
| Fast music | 10 |
| Dizzy's genre | 17 |
| Dizzy jazz? | 11 |
| Dizzy Gillespie specialty | 25 |
| Dizzy Gillespie music | 21 |
| Cyndi Lauper "She ___" | 32 |
| Charlie Parker's jazz style | 31 |
| Charlie Parker forte | 20 |
| Certain jazz | 12 |
| Cannonball Adderley's specialty | 35 |
| Bravura jazz | 12 |
| Bonk or conk | 12 |
| Bird's jazz style [solve great indie xwords at avxwords.com] | 64 |
| Bird Parker's music | 23 |
| 40's-50's music | 23 |
| 1940s musical innovation | 24 |
| "Yardbird Suite" genre | 32 |
| "Be-___-a-Lula" (Gene Vincent song) | 45 |
| Little. . . | 11 |
| Shepherd of rhyme | 17 |
| Nursery rhyme girl | 18 |
| Tender of nursery rhyme sheep | 29 |
| Shepherdess of rhyme | 20 |
| Sheep loser | 11 |
| Nursery rhyme loser? | 20 |
| Tots' hiding game | 21 |
| Shepherdess of verse | 20 |
| Shepherd of stories | 19 |
| Sheepless shepherdess | 21 |
| Sheepish lass | 13 |
| Sheep-loser of rhyme | 20 |
| Sheep loser of rhyme | 20 |
| Sheep herder of rhyme | 21 |
| She lost her sheep | 18 |
| She could use clues re locale of ewes | 37 |
| She "espied their tails side by side, / All hung on a tree to dry" | 76 |
| One working with a crook | 24 |
| Nursery rhyme shepherdess | 25 |
| Nursery rhyme loser | 19 |
| Nursery rhyme heroine | 21 |
| Nursery rhyme character who "fell fast asleep" | 56 |
| Memorable shepherd | 18 |
| Loser of a flock | 16 |
| Lax little shepherdess | 22 |
| Inept sheep keeper | 18 |
| Girl with a flock | 17 |
| Girl with a crook | 17 |
| Girl holding a crook | 20 |
| Girl from a nursery rhyme | 25 |
| Girl confused by ewes | 21 |
| Flock loser of rhyme | 20 |
| Flock loser | 11 |
| Famous shepherd | 15 |
| Famed sheep loser | 17 |
| Crooked nursery rhyme character? | 32 |
| Crook-carrying kiddie lit character | 35 |
| Crook carrier of rhyme | 22 |
| "Little" shepherdess of children's verse | 54 |
| "Little" herder of rhyme | 34 |
| Hasbro reaction game | 20 |
| Hasbro game of quick reactions | 30 |
| Hands-on electronic game that kinda groans when you lose | 56 |
| Comet Hale-___ | 14 |
| Comet Hale-__ | 13 |
| Hale-___ comet | 14 |
| Hale-___ (comet seen in 1997) | 29 |
| Hale- --- comet | 15 |
| Comet Hale- -- | 14 |
| Astronomy aficionado Thomas with a 1995 find | 44 |