| THEWHO | Band heard in "CSI" theme songs |
| ARE | CSI theme song "Who ___ You" |
| WHO | "CSI" theme song: "_ Are You" |
| NSYNC | Justin Timberlake's band heard in basin ('1,4) |
| THEPOLICE | "Every Breath You Take" band, heard in this clip |
| GREENDAY | "Basket Case" band, heard in this clip |
| ZZTOP | "La Grange" band, heard in this clip |
| NIRVANA | "Smells Like Teen Spirit" band, heard in this clip |
| CREWE | Band heard in a Cheshire town |
| DEEPFREEZE | Difficult to understand fancy band heard in very cold unit (4,6) |
| BEASTIEBOYS | "Fight For Your Right" creature-named rock band, heard in this audio clip |
| THEBLACKCROWES | "Hard to Handle" creature-named rock band, heard in this audio clip |
| VAMPIREWEEKEND | "A-Punk" creature-named rock band, heard in this audio clip |
| STEPPENWOLF | "Born to Be Wild" creature-named rock band, heard in this audio clip |
| OPENINGACT | Band heard before a bigger band, say |
| TANAKA | Hip ___ (Boston band named for a Japanese composer of video game theme songs) |
| OPRAH | Paul Simon wrote one of her theme songs |
| KING | Songwriter of this puzzle's theme songs, Carole |
| CSI | TV franchise whose theme songs are all by the Who |
| SIGNATURE | Refined aunt reusing set theme songs (9,5) |
