| 100% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose name includes a slash in the middle |
| 68% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose name includes a slash |
| 58% | KISS | 4 | Rock band whose name also forms the call letters for a rock radio station in San Antonio |
| 48% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band with a slash in its name |
| 47% | REO | 3 | Classic car company in the name of a classic rock band |
| 45% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose name came from a sewing machine |
| 45% | AKON | 4 | Singer whose name becomes a city if you add an "R" in the middle |
| 45% | VANHALEN | 8 | "Jump" rock band whose backstage requests have included a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed: 2 wds. |
| 45% | TWEEZERS | 8 | Tool whose name is a rock band if you remove the first and last letters |
| 44% | EMF | 3 | British rock band whose name is also a circuitry term |
| 44% | ZZTOP | 5 | Rock band whose name is suggested by the first row of this puzzle |
| 42% | WEEN | 4 | Rock band whose founding members adopted the names Gene and Dean |
| 42% | TALKINGHEADS | 12 | Band whose name was taken from a term in TV Guide |
| 42% | ZOOM | 4 | Company whose name became a verb in the 2020s |
| 42% | ASSISTANTEDITOR | 15 | Name in the middle of a masthead |
| 42% | ALABAMA | 7 | "Love in the First Degree" country-rock band with a state for a name |
| 42% | DURANDURAN | 10 | Rock band named after the villain in "Barbarella" |
| 41% | OKCUPID | 7 | Dating website whose name includes the name of a Roman god |
| 41% | ADENINE | 7 | DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A |
| 41% | ACDC | 4 | Band with a slash in its name |
| 41% | DAMASK | 6 | Table linen named after a place in the Middle East |
| 41% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band name with a slash |
| 41% | STATUSQUO | 9 | English rock band whose no 1 albums include Hello! and On The Level |
| 40% | PINKFLOYD | 9 | Rock band whose "The Dark Side of the Moon" album was released in 1973 (2 wds.) |
| 40% | LEDZEPPELIN | 11 | Rock band whose second studio album includes the Robert Plant/Jimmy Page song "Thank You" (2 wds.) |
| 40% | EDITORS | 7 | English rock band whose no 1 albums include 2007’s An End Has a Start |
| 40% | ALT | 3 | ___-J (indie-rock band whose name is a keyboard shortcut for the symbol ∆) |
| 39% | ACDC | 4 | Rock band whose lead guitarist notably dresses in a schoolboy uniform |
| 39% | IMPALA | 6 | Tame ___ (psychedelic rock band with a horned animal in its name) |