| SPINALTAP | Fictional English heavy metal band whose original name was The Thamesmen (6,3) |
| BEACHBOYS | "Good Vibrations" band whose original name was the Pendletones: 2 wds. |
| INXS | Rock band whose original name was The Vegetables |
| SPINAL | ____ Tap, fictional English heavy metal rock band that debuted in a 1984 mockumentary film (6) |
| RADIOHEAD | "Creep" band whose original name was On a Friday |
| CANALETTO | Italian painter whose original name was Giovanni Antonio Canal (9) |
| RETICULUM | Small southern constellation, between Dorado and Hydrus, whose original name was Rhombus (9) |
| METALLICA | Heavy metal band whose song One won the first ever Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 1990 |
| WITHPRIDE | Carve Her Name - was the story of WWII heroine Violette Szabo (4,5) |
| PEARLJAM | "Jeremy" band whose original name was Mookie Blaylock: 2 wds. |
| GREENDAY | "American Idiot" band whose original name was Sweet Children: 2 wds. |
| ABBA | Band whose original name was Festfolk (Swedish for "party people") |
| IRONMAIDEN | English heavy metal band whose songs include 'The Trooper' and 'Run for the Hills' (4,6) |
| IRON | ___ Maiden English heavy metal band whose song El Dorado won the 2011 Grammy for Best Metal Performance |
| JUDASPRIEST | English heavy metal band whose albums include Stained Class and British Steel |
| ALI | Last name of the boxer whose original name was Cassius Clay |
| SAXON | English heavy metal band, formed in the mid 1970s, whose latest album is 2024's Hell, Fire and Damnation (5) |
| MAIDEN | Iron ____, torture device that gave its name to an English heavy metal band?(6) (6) |
| PEA | Miniature cork ball in a whistle; old name for a bird in the genus Pavo known collectively as a muster; or, a podded vegetable whose original name was thought to be plural (3) |
| BARNABAS | Cypriot Jew whose original name was Joseph the Levite (8) |
