Referring Clues

• Rap music's TLC, e.g.
• Threesome
• 38-Down, for example
• Rock music's Police, e.g.
• The Supremes, e.g.
• Jazz combo, often
• Chamber group, maybe
• Run-D.M.C., e.g.
• The Magi, e.g.
• Crosby, Stills and Nash, e.g.
• Tom, Dick and Harry, e.g.
• The Fleetwoods, e.g., of 50's-60's pop
• Beethoven piano piece
• The Bee Gees, e.g.
• Beethoven's "Archduke ___"
• The Fates, e.g.
• Donald Duck's nephews, e.g.
• Small group of carolers
• Pop music's Hanson, e.g.
• Dumas's Musketeers, e.g.
• Fiddlers for 33-Across, e.g.
• Andrews Sisters, e.g.
• Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g.
• Quartet after a desertion
• Small combo
• Dumas's musketeers, for example
• Pop music's TLC, e.g.
• Country music's Dixie Chicks, e.g.
• Minuet follower
• Wynken, Blynken and Nod, e.g.
• Cream, of 1960's rock
• Quartet minus one
• The Stooges, e.g.
• Night club combo
• Duet plus one
• Rock's Cream, for instance
• The Stooges, for instance
• Rock's Cream, e.g.
• The Police, e.g.
• Backup singers, often
• Half a sextet
• Jazz group, often
• Haydn string composition
• The Dixie Chicks, e.g.
• Cream was one
• ZZ Top, musically
• The Fleetwoods, for example
• Charlie's Angels, e.g.
• Many a jazz combo
• Huey, Dewey and Louie, e.g.
• Quartet, after a defection
• The witches in "Macbeth," e.g.
• Rock's Green Day, e.g.
• Rock's Green Day, for one
• ZZ Top, e.g.
• Chamber music piece
• The Ghostbusters, e.g.
• String ___
• Stooges, e.g.
• Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g.
• Duo plus one
• The Brady boys or girls
• Chad Mitchell ___ (1960s folk band)
• The Magi, by census
• TLC, for one
• Small chamber group
• King Cole's fiddlers, for one
• The Andrews Sisters, e.g.
• The Police was one
• Bananarama, e.g.
• Rock group TLC, for one
• Quartet, after a desertion
• The Kingston ___
• Cream, for one
• Goldilocks's discoverers, e.g.
• Group of three
• Larry, Moe, and Curly, e.g.
• Foursome minus one
• Lounge group, maybe
• Tom, Dick, and Harry, e.g.
• Dixie Chicks or Destiny's Child
• Neapolitan ice cream flavors, e.g.
• Small musical group
• One-third of a nonet
• Green Day or the Limeliters
• The Andrew Sisters, e.g.
• Backup group, often
• Scherzo part
• Small jazz combo
• The Jonas Brothers, e.g.
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience, e.g.
• ZZ Top, for example
• Blink-182, e.g.
• Ben Folds Five, e.g.
• Right Said Fred, e.g.
• Rush, e.g.
• Small band
• Beaux Arts ___, classical musicians for 50+ years
• Bee Gees, e.g.
• Wilson Phillips, for one
• Many a pop group
• Wooden shoe sailors, e.g.
• Men in a tub, e.g.
• Beethoven's "The Ghost," e.g.
• R&B's TLC, for one
• Combo in a small jazz club
• The Stooges, for one
• Beethoven's "Archduke," for one
• Old King Cole's fiddlers, e.g.
• Donald Duck's nephews, for one
• The Supremes, for example
• Chamber-music group
• String ensemble
• Piece of chamber music
• Dixie Chicks, for example
• Donald's nephews, e.g.
• Mozart movement
• Apollo mission astronauts
• Mother Goose's mice, e.g.
• A combo
• The Three Tenors, e.g.
• Green Day or Cream, e.g.
• "Jeopardy!" contestants, collectively
• ZZ Top, for one
• Tom, Dick and Harry for one
• Troika
• Lounge group, perhaps
• Quartet with a defection
• Certain chamber group
• Riot anagram
• Butcher, baker and candlestick maker
• Quartet after a defection
• Dixie Chicks, e.g.
• Three of a kind
• Small music ensemble
• Small musical ensemble
• "The Three Tenors," for example
• Crosby, Stills & Nash, e.g.
• Blind mice, notably
• Lounge group, sometimes
• Certain singing ensemble
• Not quite a quartet
• Small jazz group, e.g.
• Kingston bunch
• Combo size, sometimes
• Fates, for one
• Destiny's Child, for one
• Chamber group
• Sextet X .5
• The Kingston ---
• Destiny's Child, e.g.
• Bass, piano and sax, e.g.
• Chamber group, often
• Small jazz group
• Minuet movement
• Chamber ensemble
• Rock music's Rush, for one
• Cream, e.g.
• Back up singers, often
• Blind mice or "Jeopardy!" contestants
• Beethovens archduke
• Beaux Arts ___, classical musicians for 50+ years
• Compact combo
• Beethoven's "Archduke," e.g.
• The Supremes or the Stooges
• The Police or Green Day
• Crosby, Stills Nash, e.g.
• Lady Antebellum, e.g.
• Small singing group
• Lady Antebellum, for one
• Lady antebellum, for one
• Wedding band, perhaps?
• Not a big band
• The Pep Boys, e.g.
• Wedding band, at times
• Nursery rhyme tub assembly, e.g.
• Wilson Phillips, e.g.
• Piece for three
• Three-person band
• Quartet with one out sick?
• Curly, Larry and Moe, e.g.
• Folk music's Kingston ___
• Green Day, e.g.
• Jazz combo
• Duet one
• Group of three singers
• Small group
• Singing group
• 56-Across, e.g.
• The Little Pigs, e.g.
• Duet + one
• Kingston ___
• Middle of a minuet
• Middle of a minuet
• The Musketeers, e.g.
• Middle of a minuet
• Maroon 5, if two members were crushed by a piano (hey, a guy can dream)
• Jonas Brothers, for example
• Quartet when one's out sick
• Small musical combo
• Power ___ (rock band format)
• The furies, e.g.
• Quartet with an absentee
• Jonas Brothers, e.g.
• B-Rock & the Bizz, musically
• Kingston, for one
• "Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha" band
• Small music group
• Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, e.g.
• Duo + one
• Snap, Crackle and Pop, e.g.
• Threesome ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
• Group that's a crowd?
• Destiny's Child was one
• Wedding band, perhaps
• Three-piece ensemble
• The Supremes or Cream
• Common folk group
• More than a couple?
• Group that's just shy of a quartet
• Duo with a third wheel
• Anagram of "riot"
• Small musical band
• Song for three
• Anagram for "riot"
• The fates, for one
• Peter, Paul, and Mary, e.g.
• Three in key
• Singing group of three
• Chamber-music piece
• Alabama, but not Kansas?
• The Stooges were one
• Yo La Tengo, for one
• 21-Across, e.g.
• TLC, e.g.
• Group with three singers
• Cream, for example
• The Dude, Walter, and Donny, e.g., at least as a bowling team
• Set of three
• The Ronettes, e.g.
• The Jimi Hendrix Experience, for one
• Nirvana or Cream
• "The Three Tenors," e.g.
• The Rice Krispies mascots, e.g.
• The Stooges, by census
• Common jazz combo
• Bee Gees or the Stooges, e.g.
• Rush or Nirvana
• Subordinate division of a minuet
• More than a couple
• Peter, Paul, and Mary, for example
• The Gorgons, e.g.
• The Bee Gees or ZZ Top
• The Three Tenors, for example
• Singer plus two, e.g.
• Chamber group often including a piano
• The Police, most of the time
• Salt-N-Pepa, e.g.
• Three blind mice, for one
• Cream, for instance
• It doesn't qualify as a duet
• "Riot" anagram
• Three musicians
• The Police, e,g.
• Small bar band
• Peter, Paul & Mary, e.g.
• The Supremes, for one
• "Jeopardy!" contestants, e.g.
• Half of a sextet
• The police, for one
• Rock's Police or Cream, e.g.
• The Marx Brothers, often
• Rush or Cream
• Quartet after a defection?
• "Macbeth" witches, e.g.
• Rock's Cream was one
• Rock's ZZ Top, for one
• Rock's Cream, for one
• Singing threesome
• Rock's ZZ Top is one
• The Jonas Brothers were one
• Larry, Curly and Moe, for example
• Three harmonizing as one
• Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, e.g.
• Little pigs, e.g.
• Rock's ZZ Top, e.g.
• Piano ___
• Rock band Blink 182, for one
• Small club group
• Nirvana, e.g.
• Small jazz ensemble
• Rock's Cream or ZZ Top
• Old King Cole's fiddlers, collectively
• The Bee Gees, for much of their career
• Many a chamber piece
• Sextet half
• "The Three Tenors," obviously
• Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g.
• The Dixie Chicks, for one
• Piano-bass-drums jazz group, e.g.
• Three-piece
• Folk's Kingston ___
• TV quiz contestants, often
• The Three Stooges, e.g.
• The Gabor sisters, e.g.
• Chamber work
• Lady Antebellum or the Dixie Chicks
• Many a lounge group
• Rock music's Rush or the Police
• King Cole's fiddlers, as a group
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer was one
• Destiny's Child, for much of their career
• Small ensemble
• Quartet less one
• Musical group
• Three-piece combo
• Peter, Paul and Mary, for one
• Group of three musicians
• Three singers, as a group
• Musical group of three
• Group of three people
• A group with the same number of members as 27-Across
• Group with the number of singers in 27-Across
• Singing group with three people
• Chamber piece
• Three singers
• Minuet follower, often
• Group of three, musically
• Singing group with three members
• Small group of musicians, not all illustrious
• Riot organised by group of three
• Group of three performers
• Three singers together
• One short of a quartet
• Group of three entertainers
• Three with close harmony, e.g.
• Group of three, together
• Three singers as one
• Three-piece band
• ELP, e.g.
• 3-piece band
• Dinosaur Jr., for one
• Alkaline ___
• Stray Cats, e.g.
• Three member band
• 3-piece group
• (Composition for) three performers
• Small group to split over religious instruction
• Small group involved in riot
• Musical composition a strain, too baroque?
• Not even 1 10 = 3
• Small group of patriots
• Riot involves a musical group
• Group
• The Furies or the Fates, e.g.
• Country's Rascal Flatts, e.g.
• Somewhat vitriolic, categorising some musicians
• Riot (anag)
• Small group experiencing civil unrest back to front
• Band of three
• Players in front row, say, of small musical group
• Group of musicians - or it could be
• Music's Rush or Nirvana
• Rascal Flatts, for one
• Wee jazz combo
• It's short of a quartet
• Dumas' Musketeers, for one
• Quartet with an absence
• Muse of music, e.g.
• Rock's Sublime, e.g.
• The Limeliters were one
• The Lettermen, e.g.
• Muse, for one
• The Police or ZZ Top
• Three-piece group
• Musical threesome
• Pair when joined by royal?
• For which initially three in orchestra about right?
• Beethoven's 'Archduke', for example
• After a couple, one can make it
• Beethoven's 'Archduke', for instance
• Group in histrionic mode
• Musical crowd, proverbially
• Beethoven's 'Archduke': famous piece written for this ensemble
• Ensemble musical piece, eg Beethoven's 'Archduke'
• ___ patriots at heart
• Three's crowd trouble, if head to toe
• Soloist X 3
• Cream was a power one
• Folk singing group, often
• Group that's larger than a duo
• The musketeers before d'Artagnan, e.g.
• Musical combo
• The Macbeth witches, e.g.
• Jazz combo, sometimes
• Three performers
• Ensemble
• The biblical wise men, by tradition
• Crosby, Stills and 51-Down, e.g.
• Rock music's Cream was one
• Rock's Rush, e.g.
• The Band Perry, for one
• The Three Little pigs, e.g.
• Funny person brings forward time for threesome
• Ensemble of three
• Rock music's Rush, e.g.
• Witches in "Macbeth," e.g.
• Biblical Magi, e.g.
• Three as a group
• Chamber music group, often
• Smallish combo
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, e.g.
• Fates, e.g.
• Members of an industrious group of musicians
• Sextet halved
• Many a "power" rock band
• The Andrew Sisters were one
• Emerson, Lake and Palmer, for one
• The rock band Paramore, for one
• The Simpson kids, e.g.
• Musical ensemble
• Beethoven's Opus 11, e.g.
• "Power" rock band
• "Wheel of Fortune" contestants, e.g.
• Performing threesome
• The band Ben Folds Five, oddly
• 61 Across + 1
• The witches in “Macbeth,” e.g.
• The Chipmunks, e.g.
• A composed little group
• Lounge combo, often
• Simple band or group
• The Jonas Brothers or Dixie Chicks
• The 16-Across, e.g.
• Three voices
• Me, you and the harpist
• Jazz ___
• Folk combo, perhaps
• The Marx Brothers, after 1933
• Group of patriots
• Three can compose one
• 75% of a quartet
• Enlarged duet
• Tony! Toni! Tone!, e.g.
• Quintet minus two
• Wilson Phillips was one
• The Powerpuff Girls, e.g.
• Drummer, pianist and violinist, say
• The band Haim, for one
• Beaux Arts ___: longtime chamber music group
• The Bee Gees or The Supremes
• “Jeopardy!” contestants, e.g.
• Small string ensemble
• More than a pair
• Magi, for instance
• Charlie's Angels, for example
• Three entertainers entertaining
• Small dance troupe
• Band such as Green Day
• Rock's Ben Folds Five, surprisingly
• Boyz II Men, e.g.
• Cream or Nirvana
• The Chicks, e.g.
• Many a Greek goddess group
• Three jugglers, as a group
• Group of "Jeopardy!" contestants
• Jazz club group
• The Chicks, for one
• Group such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer
• Octet minus five
• Salt-N-Pepa, originally
• Bell Biv DeVoe or Bananarama
• "Power" rock group, typically
• Little pigs or blind mice
• Three for the show?
• One less than a quartet
• SWV or 702
• The band TLC, e.g.
• Chamber music work
• You, me and our buddy in harmony
• The Supremes or the Powerpuff Girls
• Folk group, often
• Pair plus one
• Group such as Sugababes
• The Pointer Sisters, for example
• You, me and the girl on the drums
• Three-performer band
• The Pointer Sisters, e.g.
• Powerpuff Girls, for one
• The Sanderson Sisters, e.g.
• Rascal Flatts, e.g.
• Rap's Run-D.M.C., e.g.
• Something no two people can be
• The constructors of this puzzle, e.g.
• The good fairies in "Sleeping Beauty," e.g.
• The Minutemen, e.g.
• Destiny's Child or Charlie's Angels
• Goals in a hat trick, e.g.
• SWV or TLC, for example
• Snap, Crackle and Pop, for one
• Group half the size of a sextet
• Combo's rhythm section, maybe
• The Fugees, for example
• See 70-Across
• Many a jazz ensemble
• Destiny's Child, for example
• Alvin, Simon and Theodore, for one
• "Jeopardy!" contestant lineup, e.g.
• The Fates in "Hercules," e.g.
• Me, you and the bass player
• The Powerpuff Girls or Alvin and the Chipmunks
• Wedding band?
• TLC or Run-D.M.C.
• You on drums, me singing and her on violin
• Macbeth's witches, e.g.
• Ben Folds Five, e.g., oddly enough
• Piano-violin-cello combo
• Nirvana, for one
• Haim, for example
• Band like The Chicks
• Singer, pianist and drummer