| SLASH | Stage name of US musician Saul Hudson, lead guitarist with rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985-1996 and since 2016 (5) |
| RICHIESAMBORA | Lead guitarist with rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013 (6,7) |
| JOJI | "Glimpse of Us" musician |
| THEEDGE | Stage name of David Howell Evans, guitarist with rock band U2 (3,4) |
| ANGUS | Guitarist with rock band AC/DC, ----- Young (5) |
| AXL | Lead singer of the rock band Guns 'N Roses, ... Rose |
| AXLROSE | Lead vocalist of rock band Guns N' Roses (3,4) |
| SWEETCHILDOMINE | Breakthrough hit by U.S. hard rock band Guns N' Roses that was released in 1988 (5,5,1,4) |
| ROSES | Rock band Guns N' ___ |
| ONYX | Stone with rock band working at the end of day, sign of something wrong (4) |
| NEILYOUNG | Canadian-born rock singer and guitarist who first rose to prominence with rock band Buffalo Springfield |
| LAURENBACALL | Stage name of US actress Betty Joan Perske, awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2009 (6,6) |
| ALICECOOPER | Stage name of US rock singer and radio DJ Vincent Damon Furnier, born in 1948 (5,6) |
| BOURBONS | Members, including Good King Henry and the Sun King, of a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty; fragrant pink perpetual roses from an island once named after said house; or, chocolate sandwich biscuit |
| PEGGYLEE | Stage name of US jazz and pop singer Norma Deloris Egstrom (1920-2002) (5,3) |
| VERONICA | Stage name of US actress Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (1922-73), known as the Peekaboo Girl (8) |
| LAKE | Stage name of US actress Constance Frances Marie Ockelman (1922-73), known as the Peekaboo Girl (4) |
| 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) |
| BODEREK | Stage name of US actress Mary Cathleen Collins (1956-), known for films including 10 (1980) and Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) (2,5) |
