| SHADOWS | The ___, Cliff Richard's support band in the 1960s (7) |
| STANDBY | Support band in trouble in filthy venue (5,2) |
| BUDDYGUY | Influential American blues guitarist and singer who was a member of Muddy Waters' band in the 1960s |
| DESCRIBE | Present some French support band in church (8) |
| EQUATOR | Associated with the sailors' initiation rite and ceremony known as crossing the line, the imaginary band in the region where sunsets and sunrises occur fastest on Earth (7) |
| TANUNDA | Which town in the Barossa Valley boasts the oldest brass band in the southern hemisphere? (7) |
| CLARICE | ___ Cliff, pottery artist of the 1920s and 1930s (7) |
| ROADIES | They support band over occupying raised ground (7) |
| INDOORS | Select band in the building? (7) |
| RAINBOW | Multicoloured band in the sky often seen after rain (7) |
| TENDONS | Fibrous "bands" in the body such as the ones named after Achilles (7) |
| BLUFFED | Pretended Cliff Richard's back on ecstasy (7) |
| COHORTS | Playing mostly rock, host support bands |
| ADDER | The "band" in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" |
| ALEXANDERS | His ragtime band was the best band in the land, in Irving Berlin's words (9'1) |
| OSU | Sch. whose marching band is nicknamed "The Best Damn Band in the Land" |
| TRUSS | Support band for the first Abbott? (5) |
| COUNTBASIE | Reckon one comes in to support band leader (5,5) |
| MOVEIT | Cliff Richard's debut single, credited to Cliff Richard and the Drifters |
| BEECHEN | _ Cliff, 41 Across attended by 5 Down, who is old 9 Across (7) |
