| CHRISSIE | -------- Hynde, singer with the rock band Pretenders (8) |
| STEVEN | ----- Tyler, lead singer with the rock band Aerosmith (6) |
| STEVIE | Lead singer with the rock group Fleetwood Mac (6,5) |
| NICKS | Lead singer with the rock group Fleetwood Mac (6,5) |
| KNOPFLER | Mark, guitarist and singer-songwriter associated with the rock band Dire Straits (8) |
| BRIANMAY | Guitarist with the rock band Queen (5,3) |
| ELMS | With "the," rock band with an arboreal name |
| BRUCE | Jack --, bass player with the rock band Cream (5) |
| SHARLEEN | _ Spiteri, lead singer of the rock band Texas (8) |
| NICKCAVE | Australian singer/songwriter born in 1957 who fronts the rock band the Bad Seeds (4,4) |
| MARRIOTT | Steve --, member of the rock band Small Faces (8) |
| TOURISTS | The -, rock band featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart whose eponymous debut album was released in 1979 (8) |
| WHO | Group with the rock opera "Tommy," with "the" |
| MARKKNOPFLER | Singer and guitarist with the rock group Dire Straits (4,8) |
| CHAINGANG | Back on the ___ ___: song written by Chrissie Hynde and released by her band, The Pretenders, in 1982 (5,4) |
| ROGERTAYLOR | Drummer with the rock group Queen (5,6) |
| BARBARYAPE | Tailless macaque monkey associated with the Rock of Gibraltar |
| PRETENDERS | The _, rockband with Chrissie Hynde as lead singer since its creation in 1978 (10) |
| FREE | English group who had a No 2 hit with the rock anthem All Right Now (4) |
| THEPRETENDERS | Band formed in 1978 with Chrissie Hynde on lead vocals (3,10) |
