| BUSTARHYMES | Stage name of US hiphop artist Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr (5,6) |
| ALICECOOPER | Stage name of US rock singer and radio DJ Vincent Damon Furnier, born in 1948 (5,6) |
| ICECUBE | Stage name of O'Shea Jackson, U.S. hiphop artist and record producer, born LA 1969 (3,4) |
| POPPY | Stage name of US performance artist Moriah Pereira, known for satirising internet culture (5) |
| SLASH | Stage name of US musician Saul Hudson, lead guitarist of the band Guns N' Roses from 1985 to 1996 and since 2016 (5) |
| EMINEM | Stage name of US rapper Marshall Mathers (6) |
| TRINA | Stage name of US rap singer Katrina Laverne Taylor (5) |
| NINASIMONE | Stage name of US singer and civil rights activist Eunice Waymon |
| HALSEY | Stage name of US singer Ashley Frangipane (6) |
| PEGGYLEE | Stage name of US jazz and pop singer Norma Deloris Egstrom (1920-2002) (5,3) |
| PLAYBOI | Stage name of US rapper Jordan Terrell Carter, _ Carti (7) |
| RIO | Stage name of US concert pianist Elizabeth Raub, who died in 2010 aged 107 (4) |
| ROSA | Stage name of US concert pianist Elizabeth Raub, who died in 2010 aged 107 (4) |
| CENT | 50 ___: stage name of US rapper Curtis Jackson III (4) |
| LANADELREY | Stage name of US singer-songwriter Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, born in 1985 (4,3,3) |
| ICET | Stage name of US rapper Tracy Marrow (3-1) |
| APPELLATION | Name of US mountains, so I've heard (11) |
| WIO | Canadian HipHop artist aka Kevin Coley, ___-K |
| LAURENBACALL | Stage name of US actress Betty Joan Perske, awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2009 (6,6) |
| VERONICA | Stage name of US actress Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (1922-73), known as the Peekaboo Girl (8) |