| LOUREED | Velvet Underground singer and guitarist (3,4) |
| LOU | ___ Reed (Velvet Underground singer) |
| REED | Velvet Underground singer, Lou ---- (4) |
| NICO | The Velvet Underground singer |
| PSILOCIN | See Velvet Underground singer speak indistinctly when shooting up hallucinogenic drug |
| ROSETTA | Sister ____ Tharpe, gospel singer and guitarist called the 'Godmother of rock and roll' (7) |
| CLAPTON | Singer and guitarist who recorded Layla and Tears in Heaven (7) |
| COCHRAN | US rock-and-roll singer and guitarist who posthumously topped the UK charts with 'Three Steps to Heaven' in 1960 (7) |
| KRAVITZ | Old school US singer and guitarist (5,7) |
| HAYWARD | Justin -------, singer and guitarist with The Moody Blues (7) |
| NIRVANA | US rock band formed in 1987 with Kurt Cobain as lead singer and guitarist (7) |
| ADAMSON | Stuart, singer and guitarist with Scottish rock band Big Country (7) |
| UNICORN | Legendary one, woman who joined Velvet Underground, cremated? |
| BADU | "Worldwide Underground" singer Erykah |
| ELECTRONIC | Group formed by New Order singer and guitarist Bernard Sumner and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr in 1989 |
| BERRY | US rock-and-roll singer and guitarist who recorded a version of Merry Christmas Baby in 1958 (5,5) |
| DAVIDBYRNE | British-U.S. singer/ songwriter who was lead singer and guitarist of the New Wave band Talking Heads (5,5) |
| GEORGEBENSON | American singer and guitarist who has won Grammies for This Masquerade, On Broadway and Give Me the Night |
| EDDIE | US rock-and-roll singer and guitarist who posthumously topped the UK charts with 'Three Steps to Heaven' in 1960 (5) |
| NESS | Iconic punk singer and guitarist Mike |