| RADARLOVE | Breakthrough hit for Golden Earring |
| RADAR | "___ Love" (1973 hit for Golden Earring) |
| SARA | "___ Smile" (breakthrough hit for Hall & Oates) |
| DONT | ___ Cha, breakthrough hit for 50D (4) |
| GRABIT | Golden Earring's "___ for a Second" |
| HAY | Singer Barry of Golden Earring |
| SMILES | Golden Earring "When the Lady ___" |
| DANCE | Garth Brooks' breakthrough hit, with "The" |
| TORN | Natalie Imbruglia's breakthrough hit |
| TAKEMETO | Hozier's breakthrough hit. (4,2,2,6) |
| CREEP | Radiohead’s 1992 breakthrough hit |
| CONGA | Gloria Estefan's breakthrough hit |
| EPIC | Faith No More's breakthrough hit of 1990 (4) |
| HAGUE | European city where rock bands Golden Earring and Shocking Blue were formed, with "The" |
| SWEETCHILDOMINE | Breakthrough hit by U.S. hard rock band Guns N' Roses that was released in 1988 (5,5,1,4) |
| SISTER | 1970s group whose breakthrough hit was We Are Family (6,6) |
| SLEDGE | 1970s group whose breakthrough hit was We Are Family (6,6) |
| LITTLERICHARD | US singer-songwriter whose breakthrough hit was 1955's 'Tutti Frutti' (6,7) |
| LORIOT | French for a melodious yellow bird, whose common name, "oriole", derives from Latin for "golden" (6) |
| GUILDER | English corruption of the Dutch word for 'golden', used for various gold and silver coins of Germany, Austria and the Netherlands (7) |
