| LIEUTENANTPIGEON | Group who had a 1972 number one single with Mouldy Old Dough |
| TELEGRAMSAM | A 1972 Number 1 single for T Rex |
| SCHOOLSOUT | 1972 number one single for Alice Cooper (7,3) |
| NILSSON | Singer who had a 1972 hit with Without You |
| DRHOOK | Common name of the US band who had a 1972 hit with Sylvia's Mother (2,4) |
| OFFICE | Workplace with mouldy drink cooler? (6) |
| COLDSNAP | Caught with mouldy biscuit in wintry weather? |
| GINAG | Australian singer who had a 1996 UK number one single with Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit |
| KATEBUSH | The first female artist to achieve a UK number one single with a self-written song |
| CHICORYTIP | English pop group best known for the 1972 number one Son of My Father, one of the first hit singles to feature a Moog synthesiser (7,3) |
| RIHANNA | Barbadian singer who achieved her first number-one single with the song SOS in 2006 |
| DONMCLEAN | US singer of the 1972 Number One hit, Vincent (3,6) |
| WROTE | We include a lot of mouldy old rubbish for Murder, She ... (5) |
| TOADSTOOL | Fungus from mouldy old toast - brown in the middle |
| ROTTENBOROUGHS | Smell of hooligans under mouldy old seats (6,8) |
| BENNYHILL | Former milkman who had a Christmas Number 1 single with Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West) |
| BLERTA | New Zealand musical and theatrical group which had a 1972 hit with Dance All Around The World (6) |
| MELVIN | Harold ___ and the Blue Notes: soul and R&B group which had a 1972 hit with If You Don't Know Me By Now (6) |
| EDMUNDS | Dave --, Welsh singer who had a No. 1 single with "I Hear You Knocking" in 1970 (7) |
| HARRYBELAFONTE | ____ had a Christmas No 1 single with Mary's Boy Child in 1957 |
