| ICEHOUSE | Name the Australian pop group, originally The Flowers, formed in 1977 (8) |
| SNOWMAN | Named cornflower with double white flowers - formed after a wintry fall? (7) |
| GIPSYKINGS | French flamenco, salsa, and pop group originally called Los Reyes |
| ABBA | Swedish pop group originally called Festfolket |
| SKYHOOKS | 1970s Australian pop group (8) |
| TIMBUKTU | Name given to male deer, say? Originally, the ungulates in some faraway place (8) |
| DOORSTOP | Best 60s group, originally a heavy object (8) |
| BALLARAT | Australian town which was originally the centre of a gold-mining region (8) |
| SUBORDER | Taxonomic group originally unknown in southern confines |
| ELDORADO | Originally, the king of the legendary South American city of Manoa, said to be regularly covered with gold dust ('the gilded'); subsequently, any fabled city or land of riches (2,6) |
| TROUTLET | Originally the right market for little fish (8) |
| NEAREAST | Originally, the greatest extent of the Ottoman Empire |
| BRETHREN | Germanspeaking Mennonite group, originally |
| LOTHARIO | Libertine group originally haunting a former capital |
| OLIVEOYL | Comic-strip character created by US cartoonist E. C. Segar in 1919; originally the girlfriend of Harold Hamgravy (5,3) |
| SRILANKA | Asian country, originally the Arabic Serendib or Serendip (3,5) |
| MENATWORK | Australian pop group who received the Best New Artist Grammy in 1983: 3 wds. |
| SKIDS | Scottish group formed in 1977 who released album Peaceful Times in June (5) |
| ANTS | Adam and the _. English pop band formed in 1977 (4) |
| CHISEL | Name the Australian rock group, formed in 1974, Cold ... (6) |
