Solutions Soul II Soul's only UK No 1 hit, released in 1989 has 6 entries with similar clues

• 4-letter words
• boond c ..., australia test cricketer who hit 200 against new zealand at perth in 1989
• styxOne of the nine rivers in the underworld over which Charon ferried the souls of the dead
• 5-letter words
• letheA river in Hades whose water when drunk made the souls of the dead forget their life on earth
• 7-letter words
• requiemMass for the souls of the dead
• animismThe belief that plants and inanimate objects have souls
• 8-letter words
• valhallaWhere the souls of slain heroes were received by Odin