| MAYQUEEN | Blossom with rock band as girl selected annually (3,5) |
| MENTAL | Rock band, as Anything |
| ONREMAND | Performing with rock band: also awaiting trial (2,6) |
| CHRISSIE | Lead singer with rock band the Pretenders, -------- Hynde (8) |
| DISPENSE | Pass out as girl with discernment, keeping quiet (8) |
| SATIRIST | Watched blossom with introduction of Taylor Swift, perhaps |
| MISSPEND | Handle money badly as girl and finish without penny (8) |
| IRRITATE | Cause annoyance and anger as girl, having temperature, stays in |
| BLIZZARD | Storm as girl unknown appears in Shakespeare? |
| TAPERING | Record band as it is waning (8) |
| DISCLOSE | Make known as girl's getting near (8) |
| SHOWALEG | Call to rise as girls in the chorus do (4,1,3) |
| NEILYOUNG | Canadian-born rock singer and guitarist who first rose to prominence with rock band Buffalo Springfield |
| RICHIESAMBORA | Lead guitarist with rock band Bon Jovi from 1983 to 2013 (6,7) |
| LAMBERT | Ghost Town singer on tour with rock band Queen, Adam ___ (7) |
| THEEDGE | Stage name of David Howell Evans, guitarist with rock band U2 (3,4) |
| ROGER | - Daltrey, singer with rock band The Who (5) |
| ANGUS | Guitarist with rock band AC/DC, ----- Young (5) |
| HANDPICK | Choose with great care labourer with rock-breaking tool |
| SLASH | Stage name of US musician Saul Hudson, lead guitarist with rock band Guns N' Roses from 1985-1996 and since 2016 (5) |
