| LESPAUL | American guitarist and songwriter, a pioneer of the solid- body electric guitar (3,4) |
| ERICCLAPTON | English blues-rock guitarist, singer and songwriter, a member of 1960s band Cream (4,7) |
| IONESCO | Eugene, dramatist born in Romania and a pioneer of the Theatre of the Absurd (7) |
| KEROUAC | Jack ___, American novelist and poet considered a pioneer of the Beat Generation |
| PAUL | Les, U.S. guitarist who created the solid-body electric guitar (4) |
| SAMBORA | Richie _, guitarist and songwriter who was in Bon Jovi (7) |
| TELE | Made by Fender, the common name of the world's first commercially successful solid-body electric guitar (4) |
| FENDER | Leo ------, designer of the first solid-body electric guitar (6) |
| LEOFENDER | US inventor who developed the first massproduced solid- body electric guitar, the Telecaster, in 1951 (3,6) |
| HENDRIX | American guitarist who wrote Purple Haze (7) |
| STEVEMILLER | American guitarist and singer-songwriter whose band's hits include Fly Like An Eagle and Take the Money and Run |
| TELECASTERS | Solid-body electric guitars made by the Fender company since 1950 (11) |
| GERICAULT | The work of which French painter, a pioneer of the Romantic Movement, includes The Raft of the Medus |
| ENO | A pioneer of the ambient genre who has worked with the likes of Coldplay, David Bowie, Roxy Music and U2, and composed the Microsoft Windows 95 start-up sound (3) |
| ODETTA | American singer, actress, guitarist and songwriter often referred to as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| PAULMCCARTNEY | Bass guitarist and songwriter, formerly a member of the Beatles and Wings (4,9) |
| MICKRALPHS | English guitarist and songwriter who was a founding member of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company |
| CLARKTERRY | American swing and bebop trumpeter who was a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz |
| BERRY | Chuck, US guitarist and songwriter inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 (5) |
| CHUCKBERRY | US guitarist and songwriter inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 (5,5) |
