| Rock music's Rush, for one | 30 |
| Rock music's Police, e.g. | 29 |
| Right Said Fred, e.g. | 21 |
| Rap's Salt-N-Pepa, e.g. | 27 |
| Rap music's TLC, e.g. | 25 |
| Ramsey Lewis, e.g. | 18 |
| R&B's TLC, for one | 26 |
| Quintet less duet | 17 |
| Quartet, after a desertion | 26 |
| Quartet with one out sick? | 26 |
| Quartet with an absentee | 24 |
| Pop music's TLC, e.g. | 25 |
| Pop music's Hanson, e.g. | 28 |
| Pointer Sisters, e.g. | 21 |
| Piece for three | 15 |
| Peter, Paul, and Mary, for example | 34 |
| Peter, Paul & Mary, e.g. | 28 |
| Peter Paul and Mary e.g. | 26 |
| Pair plus one | 13 |
| One-third of a nonet | 20 |
| Nursery rhyme tub assembly, e.g. | 32 |
| Not a big band | 14 |
| Nonet third | 11 |
| Nirvana or Cream | 16 |
| Neapolitan ice cream flavors, e.g. | 34 |
| Musketeers, e.g. | 16 |
| Musketeers or Magi | 18 |
| Music for three | 15 |
| Muse, e.g. | 10 |
| Motörhead, for one | 21 |
| More than a couple? | 19 |
| Minuet movement | 15 |
| Minuet follower | 15 |
| Minuet division | 15 |
| Men in a tub, e.g. | 18 |
| McGuire Sisters | 15 |
| Maroon 5, if two members were crushed by a piano (hey, a guy can dream) | 71 |
| March division | 14 |
| Lounge group, sometimes | 23 |
| Lounge entertainment | 20 |
| Like the Graces | 15 |
| Letters on a phone button e.g. | 31 |
| Lear's daughters e.g. | 26 |
| Larry, Curly and Moe, for example | 33 |
| Kingston, e.g. | 14 |
| Kingston bunch | 14 |
| Kingston ___ | 12 |
| Kingston for one | 17 |
| Kingston e.g. | 14 |
| Jonas Brothers, for example | 27 |
| Jonas Brothers, e.g. | 20 |
| Jeopardy! contestants e.g. | 30 |
| Jazz group, often | 17 |
| Jazz combo, at times | 20 |
| Haydn string composition | 24 |
| Hals's "Jolly ___" | 32 |
| Group with three singers | 24 |
| Group that's just shy of a quartet | 38 |
| Group that's a crowd? | 25 |
| Green Day, e.g. | 15 |
| Green Day or the Limeliters | 27 |
| Green Day or Cream, e.g. | 24 |
| Graces or Fates | 15 |
| Foursome minus one | 18 |
| Fates, for one | 14 |
| Fates or Furies, e.g. | 21 |
| ELP, e.g. | 9 |
| Duo with a third wheel | 22 |
| Dumas's musketeers, for example | 35 |
| Dumas's Musketeers, e.g. | 28 |
| Dumas heroes | 12 |
| Duet, plus one | 14 |
| Donald's nephews, e.g. | 26 |
| Donald Duck's nephews, for one | 34 |
| Dixie Chicks, for example | 25 |
| Dixie Chicks or Destiny's Child | 35 |
| Division of a minuet | 20 |
| Disney's Caballeros, e.g. | 29 |
| Dinosaur Jr., for one | 21 |
| Destiny's Child, for one | 28 |
| Destiny's Child, for example | 32 |
| Destiny's Child, among others | 33 |
| Das Racist, e.g. | 16 |
| D'Artagnan's pals, e.g. | 31 |
| Cream, of 1960's rock | 25 |
| Cream, for example | 18 |
| Country music's Lady Antebellum, for example | 48 |
| Country music's Dixie Chicks, e.g. | 38 |
| Contrasting music as in a march | 32 |
| Common jazz combo | 17 |
| Common folk group | 17 |
| Combo size | 10 |
| Combo of a sort | 15 |
| Combo in a small jazz club | 26 |
| Columbus's fleet, e.g. | 26 |
| Cinema Stooges, e.g. | 20 |
| Chamber-music ensemble | 22 |
| Chamber-music composition | 25 |
| Chamber group, often | 20 |
| Chad Mitchell ___ (1960s folk band) | 35 |