| TPAU | "Heart and Soul" band of the 1980s |
| PAU | "Heart and Soul" band T'___ |
| KNOPFLER | Surname of two brothers who, along with John Illsley and Pick Withers, formed the most successful band of the 1980's (8) |
| AHA | "The Sun Always Shines on T.V." band of the 1980s |
| RATT | Big hair band of the 1980s |
| ASIA | British rock band of the 1980s |
| MENAT | ___ Work ("It's a Mistake" band of the 1980s) |
| SIMPLYRED | Manchester rock and soul band fronted by Mick Hucknall (6,3) |
| LIVINGINABOX | British band of the 1980s who had an eponymous top ten hit in 1987 (6,2,1,3) |
| ERASURE | Band of the Eighties period - Yes (7) |
| LEAST | Fred Astaire sang, "I'd love to gain complete control of you; Handle even the heart and soul of you; So love at ... a small percent of me do; 'Cause I love all of you" |
| MGS | Booker T. and the ___ (instrumental soul band) |
| MICKFLEETWOOD | Cornish drummer whose surname formed half of the name of a successful band of the 1960s and 1970s |
| ESSENCE | Heart, soul, or heart and soul |
| EELS | "Novocaine for the Soul" band |
| THECOMMITMENTS | Roddy Doyle book and film about a Dublin soul band |
| STARS | 1991 album by the British pop-soul band Simply Red (5) |
| FUN | New York soul band with the album Loco, ___ Lovin' Criminals |
| SCRIPT | The ____, Celtic soul band noted for their album Science & Faith (6) |
| BICYCLES | The mounts of the Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments |
