| SWEETCHILDOMINE | Breakthrough hit by U.S. hard rock band Guns N' Roses that was released in 1988 (5,5,1,4) |
| OVERDRIVE | 2003 song by Katy Rose that was featured on the Mean Girls soundtrack |
| GUNSNROSES | U.S. hard rock band noted for their 1988 song Sweet Child O' Mine (4,1,5) |
| VANHALEN | U.S. hard rock band who wrote Jump (3,5) |
| BRIERS | Wild roses that may be mentioned by The Good Life's Richard (6) |
| MOSS | ___ roses are a group of centifolia roses that have a ___-like growth on the stems and flower bases (4) |
| ATTAR | Essential oil from roses that tarnishes inside |
| AXL | Front man of hard rock band Guns N' Roses whose album Chinese Democracy was released in 2008, ... Ro |
| AXLROSE | Lead vocalist for American hard rock band Guns N' Roses (3,4) |
| MYONETEMPTATION | Debut single by Mica Paris, released in 1988 (2,3,10) |
| IMEANITTHISTIME | Threat that's hard to take seriously |
| SALESRESISTANCE | Struggle against pitch that’s hard to deal with |
| SLASH | Stage name of US musician Saul Hudson, lead guitarist with rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985-1996 and since 2016 (5) |
| FLOWERPASSENGER | The rose that came along with all the others in 1620? |
| ROSES | Rock band Guns N' ___ |
| ROSE | Lead singer of the band Guns N' Roses (3,4) |
| PUSH | "Precious: Based on the Novel '___' by Sapphire" (movie parodied by "30 Rock"s "Hard to Watch: Based on the Novel 'Stone Cold Bummer' by Manipulate") |
| THEDEADPOOL | Fifth and final film in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry series, released in 1988 (3,4,4) |
| LITTLERICHARD | US singer-songwriter whose breakthrough hit was 1955's 'Tutti Frutti' (6,7) |
| ACAPULCO | Loco In ____, song by the Four Tops released in 1988 (8) |
