| YUNGBLOD | Stage name of English singer, musician, songwriter and actor Dominic Harrison (8) |
| ADAMANT | Stage name of English singer, musician and actor Stuart Leslie Goddard, born in 1954 (4,3) |
| STARR | English musician, songwriter and actor born Richard Starkey in 1940 (5,5) |
| RINGO | English musician, songwriter and actor born Richard Starkey in 1940 (5,5) |
| DAVIES | Rick ___, late musician, songwriter and co-founder of Supertramp (6) |
| LOUISJORDAN | American musician, songwriter and bandleader whose songs feature in the musical Five Guys Named Moe |
| TWINKLE | Stage name of English singer-songwriter Lynn Annette Ripley who had 1960s hits with Terry and Golden Lights |
| STING | Stage name of English singer/ songwriter Gordon Sumner (5) |
| RYCOODER | American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer (2,6) |
| OSWESTRY | Actor Dominic boarding very large railway in Shropshire town (8) |
| STARDUST | Alvin, professional name of English glam rock star noted for his song Jealous Mind (8) |
| MINSTREL | Medieval singer/musician |
| CLOUD | One of the forenames in the birth name of English singer Dido (5) |
| ATTILA | ____ the Stockbroker, stage name of English punk poet and musician born in 1957 (6) |
| TWEEDY | Maiden name of English singer Cheryl (6) |
| STANLAUREL | Stage name of English comic actor Arthur Jefferson |
| GREEN | Professor ----, stage name of English rapper Stephen Paul Manderson (5) |
| KENNYLYNCH | London-born singer-songwriter and actor who appears on the cover of 1973 record album Band on the Run by Paul McCartney and Wings (5,5) |
| NAIL | Jimmy, English singer songwriter and actor who played the titular TV detective in Spender (4) |
| TRAVISTRITT | American country singer-songwriter and actor who won Grammy Awards in 1993 and 1999 |