Possible Clues:

• Wood
• Material for key point not fleshed out
• ___ Awards (annual prizes for African-American achievement)
• Is 'e thin but black and hard?
• Def Leppard's 1992 chart-topping album
• Like the Everly Brothers No 1 eyes
• The old toff's in the interior, climbing a tree
• Carving medium
• Wood used for piano keys
• Tree having black wood