Billy Joel Songs

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Suburban dwellings of rock and roll fragility in 1980 (6)
• Real estate novelist who has all the time in the world for barflies (4)
• Length descriptor for Joel's home island of rocky beaches and bays (4)
• Path traversed into the night through dreams in a 1993 spiritual journey (5)
• Historical blaze that Joel insists 'we didn't start' (4)
• Vessels built in Bethlehem that never sailed far enough (5)
• Eighty-eight keys wielded by a resident entertainer at a cocktail lounge (5)
• Pianist mother whose eyes keep shining in a soulful 1978 tribute (9)
• Relentless dimension you have plenty of when sitting in Vienna (4)
• Leningrad lover on the radio who could bridge Cold War divides (4)
• Seasonal harbor setting for Joel's debut solo offering (6)
• Nocturnal hour of 'Goodnight Saigon' when darkness brings fear (5)
• High roller's descriptive label paired with 'Big' in a scathing 1978 rant (4)
• French capital where romantic fantasies meet European reality (5)
• High school golden girl whose Italian restaurant romance didn't last (6)

Down

• Such a lonely word that hardly ever gets heard (7)
• Gambling hall setting off a 1984 concept track in an exotic port (6)
• Fragile material of the houses you shouldn't throw stones from (5)
• Crimson blossom blooming for a wild girl named Christie (4)
• Status claimed by an accused man across a 1983 title track (8)
• Capital that famously waits for ambitious, burnt-out youth (6)
• Midtown avenue numeric that houses 1978's jazz-rock opus (6)
• Pennsylvania steel capital where factory whistles and hopes died out (9)
• Synthesizer-heavy anxiety that drives you up against the wall (8)
• Hunnish moniker for Joel's heavy metal two-man experiment in 1970 (6)
• Civil structure spanning troubled waters on a 1986 album sleeve (6)

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