| 7 | ...but neither Jane Fonda nor Donald Sutherland (1,2,5) | Jane and Donald co-starred in the movie I Am Klute, from which I Am Kloot took their name. |
| 9 | Panacea, they dropped the 'easy' (3,4) | A panacea is a cure-all. Robert Smith's band were originally called The Easy Cure - they dropped the 'Easy' and became The Cure. |
| 11 | A hand reached down to him (5,5) | The lyrics to Oh You Pretty Things by the late David Bowie describe "A crack in the sky and a hand reaching down to me". |
| 13 | Over experienced (4,7) | His breakthrough band was The Jimi Hendrix Experience. |
| 14 | Oh Susanna! Plus three. (3,7) | The gorgeous Susanna Hoffs was lead vocalist with The Bangles. |
| 16 | The beginning of all bands (7) | Genesis, Chapter 1, Verse 1: In the beginning... |
| 21 | She stopped wearing cardigans (4,7) | The sublime Nina Persson was singer with The Cardigans before going solo. |
| 23 | Dancers of the leggy mambo (3) | Leggy Mambo was the second album from Cud. |
| 24 | Bickle boys (6) | Travis Bickle was the protagonist in Taxi Driver, and gave the band their name. |
| 25 | Time for Sleep for these indie also-rans (6) | Time and Sleep were minor hits for forgotten indie nearly-men Marion. |
| 27 | Insistent insect (4,3) | Insistent could be adamant, an insect could be an ant, hence Adam Ant. |
| 28 | Allowed the country to quiver (1,1,6) | Let England Shake was an album by P J Harvey. |
| 30 | Shoegazing was easy (4) | Easy might imply an easy ride, hence Oxford shoegazers Ride. |
| 31 | They bore a rose banner (4) | Rose banner = Pink Flag, an album by Wire. |
| 32 | Rearrange Mancunians (3,5) | Not an anagram but if you arranged those Mancunians you might put them in a New Order. |
| 34 | Locus of deoxyribonucleic acid (4) | Deoxyribonucleic acid being DNA, this is one definition of a Gene. |
| 37 | Sad aviation (4,10) | Sad = blue, aviation = aeroplanes: Blue Aeroplanes. |
| 40 | They reflected in the en-suite (3,4) | Mirror In The Bathroom was a big hit for The Beat. |
| 41 | Still suitable for miners (5,5) | Note, miners, not minors. Who's more suitable for miners than Billy Bragg? |
| 42 | Gift chosen from a list (3,7,7) | Wedding gifts are often chosen from a list, hence The Wedding Present. |
| 45 | Goes well with Streetband hit (3,3) | Streetband had a hit with Toast, and what goes well with toast? The Jam, of course (Marmalade wouldn't fit). |
| 46 | Gave 41A an extra verse (6,7) | 41A being Billy Bragg, the late Kirsty MacColl added an extra verse to her cover of Bill's A New England, which he subsequently adopted in tribute to her. |
| 48 | After-hours training for the philharmonic (1,1,1) | After hours implies in the Dark. Training implies Manoeuvres. Philharmonic implies Orchestral. So, O.M.D. |
| 49 | The Office Block Persecution Affinity (3,5) | One of a number of groups The Kinks identified with in The Village Green Preservation Society. |
| 50 | Gave Val Kilmer his finest hour (3,8) | Val played Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's Doors biopic. |
| 52 | Not as hard as stainless steel (4) | Sheffield is indelibly associated with stainless steel, as are the much softer sounding Pulp. |
| 55 | Their sophtware did not sell well (9) | The Sophtware Slump was an album by Grandaddy. |
| 57 | They always sounded so happy (1,1,1) | Ecstatic even, or in a state of X.T.C. perhaps? |
| 58 | Multiple stationers (3,6) | More than one branch of W H Smith would surely be The Smiths? |
| 61 | Scouse anglers? (4) | Fishermen Cast their line. |
| 62 | Change for vending machine (6,4) | Forgive the playground joke, but this is Johnny Cash. |
| 64 | Kubrick's favourite band? (11) | Probably not Stanley's favourite band, but Strangelove were excellent, as is Kubrick's film Dr Strangelove. |
| 66 | Handy for nurdling, if Gallic (5) | A nurdle (think of the Aquafresh logo) would be easy to draw with a French curve. Or just Curve, if Gallic. |
| 67 | Not the high street soap pedlars (4) | As well as the soap company, Lush were also shoegazers signed to 4AD. |
| 68 | Kept in a creel? (4) | Sylvia Plath's poem You're memorably compared a baby to a creel of Eels. |
| 69 | Oh, duo screwed (7,5) | Confusingly not a duo, just an anagram of Crowded House. |
| 71 | Not Screaming Lord Sutch's backing band (7) | Sutch's band were The Savages. So not them, just Savages without the The. |
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| 2 | Essential French duo (3) | Air is pretty essential, I find. |
| 3 | New York childminders (5) | Nanny In Manhattan was the jeans-ad-powered one-hit wonder for Lilys. |
| 4 | Velveteen trash (5) | Velveteen is an adjective that might be applied to Suede who had quite a hit with Trash. |
| 6 | Bald, bony? (3,5) | A straight anagram of the bony but still hirsute Bob Dylan. |
| 8 | Suicidal Swedes (3,9) | The Wannadies were from Sweden. |
| 9 | Liverpudlians who always had one eye on the cover (3,3) | The La's eponymous debut album had a close-up of an eye on the sleeve. |
| 10 | Symbol's mother (5) | For a while, Prince went by the name of an unpronounceable symbol. Who's a prince's mother? A Queen, of course! |
| 12 | Neither acoustic nor heavy but philharmonic (1,1,1) | Not acoustic implies Electric. Not heavy implies Light. Philharmonic implies Orchestra. So, E.L.O. |
| 14 | A modest, dizzy bunch (3,6,5) | (Im)modest sounding The Wonder Stuff helped Vic Reeves with his hit cover of Dizzy. |
| 15 | Spanish archer (5) | El bow... Elbow. Geddit? |
| 17 | Tight fit (but not Tight Fit) (7) | A tight fit is, literally, a Squeeze. |
| 18 | Kopavagur's finest (8,7) | Kopavagur is a little town in Iceland, home to singer-songwriter Emiliana Torrini. |
| 19 | When Bob was sweet, not mouldy (5) | Bob Mould's other band, Sugar. |
| 20 | Sounds like they should be Alan's favourite band (1,2) | Knowing me, Alan Partridge, knowing you, New Amusements... A-Ha! |
| 22 | Shy poets bop (3,4,4) | A straight anagram of Pet Shop Boys. |
| 25 | Ann Coates (9) | Credited with backing vocals on Bigmouth, Ann Coates was actually a pitch-shifted Morrissey. |
| 26 | Quite good (3,12) | In their early days, this band had badges proclaiming "The Housemartins are quite good". |
| 29 | He plays guitar (6,4) | The lyrics of John Kettley Is A Weatherman by A Tribe of Toffs include the line "Johnny Marr, he plays guitar." |
| 32 | They saw off the fear (5) | There Goes The Fear was, in my view, Doves' finest moment. |
| 35 | The decline of ... (7,3,5) | ...British Sea Power is an excellent album by, unsurprisingly, British Sea Power! |
| 36 | Alternate heroes' stetson (3,5,5) | A straight anagram of The Stone Roses. |
| 38 | No longer an attraction (5,8) | Since Steve Nieve doesn't fit, another ex-Attraction would be Elvis Costello. |
| 39 | Changing man (4,6) | A descriptive reference to a mid-90s release from Paul Weller. |
| 43 | Not Middleton, not burning (4,4) | Not Middleton, so another Kate. Not burning, so another bush. Kate Bush. |
| 44 | Gaussian smudge (4) | A Gaussian Blur is a common image processing effect used in many graphics software packages. |
| 47 | Is Georgia the dream state? (3) | Rapid Eye Movement is what you do when you're dreaming and Athens, Georgia, was home to R.E.M. |
| 51 | (W)hole lot of water (5) | A waterhole might be an Oasis. |
| 53 | Fallen in French farce (7) | The farce in question, 'Allo 'Allo, featured a painting entitled "Ze Fallen Madonna With Ze Big Boobies". Yes, really. |
| 54 | Diminutive Cornish or Devonians (6) | Those mythical little fellas would be Pixies, of course. |
| 56 | Pre-Banksy stencillers, Essex anarcho-punks (5) | I remember the stencilled art and logos more than the music. This was Crass. |
| 59 | Gudmund's daughter, once sweet and die-shaped (5) | Ex-Sugarcube, Bjork Gudmundsdottir. |
| 60 | Left the opera Scott-free (5) | She left her soap opera husband Scott behind and went on to become so big she could dispense with her surname. She is Kylie. |
| 63 | Grunge Yoko and co (4) | Grunge Yoko was a label thrown at Courtney Love, who had her own band, Hole. |
| 65 | White Van men (4) | Van Morrison first found fame as the singer in Them. |
| 70 | Entwistle (2) | Who bassist and archetypal quiet man John Entwistle's nickname was Ox. |
