| 100% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "smith" for Steven Tyler's rock band |
| 63% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "Smith" for the rock band that sang "Sweet Emotion" |
| 58% | AEROSMITH | 9 | Steven Tyler's rock band |
| 53% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "smith" to mean a popular rock band |
| 48% | AERO | 4 | Prefix with "Smith" to mean Joe Perry's band |
| 47% | AEROSMITH | 9 | Rock band fronted by Steven Tyler |
| 44% | AEROSMITH | 9 | Steven tyler's band |
| 44% | ELO | 3 | English rock band with a string section, for short |
| 43% | NIN | 3 | Rock band with the 1994 4x platinum album "The Downward Spiral," for short |
| 42% | AMERICA | 7 | "Sister Golden Hair" rock band with a country for a name |
| 42% | BOSTON | 6 | "More Than a Feeling" rock band with a city for a name |
| 42% | KANSAS | 6 | "Carry on Wayward Son" rock band with a state for a name |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's need, for short |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's booster, for short |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's box, for short |
| 41% | GUNSNROSES | 10 | Hard rock band with the multiplatinum 1987 album "Appetite for Destruction": 3 wds. |
| 41% | TESLA | 5 | Rock band with an inventor's name |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's sound booster, for short |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's stage accessory, for short |
| 41% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's sound blaster, for short |
| 41% | MGMT | 4 | Rock band with the song "Kids" whose name is short for their original name, "The Management" |
| 41% | CHICAGO | 7 | "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" rock band with a city for a name |
| 40% | IMAGINEDRAGONS | 14 | Rock band behind "Radioactive" with whom 17a toured in 2018 for the Evolve World Tour: 2 wds. |
| 40% | NODOUBT | 7 | U.S. rock band with lead vocalist Gwen Stefani |
| 40% | AMP | 3 | Rock band's device to boost sound, for short |
| 40% | DONNAS | 6 | Rock band known for 2002's Take it Off |
| 40% | SKATE | 5 | Prefix with "board" for a highschooler's popular pastime |
| 39% | TRI | 3 | Prefix with "cycle" for a little kid's three-wheeler |
| 39% | AUTO | 4 | Prefix with "biography" for the story of one's life |
| 38% | AMERICA | 7 | "Sister Golden Hair" rock band with an appropriate name for this puzzle (despite having been formed in England) |