| CCR | "Lookin' Out My Back Door" band, initially |
| TESLA | "Love is all around you, love is knocking outside your door" band |
| OUT | "Lookin' ___ My Back Door" (1970 CCR hit) (3) |
| BTO | "Takin' Care of Business" band, or my band, initially |
| RING | Band initially recorded in neighbour's garage (4) |
| BASALT | Rock band initially attracting an old sailor |
| UHF | Bluetooth band, initially |
| CSNY | "Our House" band, initially |
| SASHIMI | Band initially irritated by motorway food that's Japanese |
| PIL | John Lyndon's post-Sex Pistols band, initially |
| ELO | 1970s band, initially? |
| THROB | Beat time here, right over band, initially (5) |
| STP | "Plush" rock band, initially |
| NIN | Trent Reznor band, initially |
| BISCUIT | Band initially is divided about current teatime food? (7) |
| STRIPE | Band's initially sentimental rubbish |
| ELNINO | Lynne's band initially welcomes female writer - this is likely to warm things up (2,4) |
| POPTOP | "I blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a ___ / Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home": "Margaritaville" |
| POE | "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door" writer |
| STRETCH | "And I will ___ out my hand, and smite Egypt..." |
