- TRIO
- Kovacs' "The Nairobi __"
- A crowd, often
- Cream was one
- Crosby, Stills and Nash, e.g.
- Kovacs' "The Nairobi ____"
- Peter, Paul, and Mary, e.g.
- The Three Tenors, e.g.
- Charlie's Angels, e.g.
- The Bee Gees, e.g.
- The Supremes, e.g.
- McGuire Sisters, for one
- Kovacs' "The Nairobi __" (4)
- Peter, Paul and Mary
- Destiny's Child, for one
- Salt-N-Pepa, for one
- Disney's Caballeros, e.g.
- Destiny's Child, for most of their existence
- The Jonas Brothers, for example
- Chamber music group, often
- TLC, originally
- De La Soul, e.g.
- The Chicks, for one
- TLC, e.g.
- The Beatles at the time they recorded "I Me Mine," e.g.
- The witches in "Hocus Pocus," e.g.
- Lounge group, maybe
- ZZ Top, for one
- Das Racist, e.g.
- Motörhead, for one
- Muse, e.g.
- Rock's Animal Collective, e.g.
- Rock's Yo La Tengo, e.g.
- Sublime, e.g.
- The Beastie Boys, e.g.
- The Flaming Lips, e.g.
- The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, e.g.
- Triumph, for one
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, e.g.
- Rap's Migos, e.g.
- Lady Antebellum, e.g.
- Singing group
- The Fates. e.g.
- Wages, salaries, and tips
- 75 Down, e.g.
- Jazz grouplet
- Classic jazz combo
- Jazz ensemble, often
- Bass, guitar and drums, e.g.
- Common jazz combo
- Small jazz combo
- Small combo
- The Supremes or Cream
- Duet plus one
- Jazz combo, often
- Pair plus one
- Blind mice, e.g.
- Quartet minus one
- Tom, Dick and Harry, e.g.
- Chamber-music piece
- Middle of a minuet
- Group playing Brahms's Op. 40
- The Lettermen, e.g.
- The Dixie Chicks, e.g.
- American Idol judging panel, e.g.
- The witches in "Macbeth," e.g.
- Cards in 75 Across, e.g.
- Cream, e.g.
- Samuel Barber's "Commemorative March," e.g.
- Donald Duck's nephews, e.g.
- The smallest possible nuclear family, e.g.
- Small set
- It's always for more than two players
- Piano six hands, e.g.
- The Magi weren't necessarily one, despite popular belief
- Chamber music group, sometimes
- Half a sestet
- Quartet less one
- The Andrews Sisters, e.g.
- The Magi, e.g.
- The Stooges, e.g.
- Wynken, Blynken, and Nod, e.g.
- Slightly expanded duet
- The Andrews Sisters, for one
- The Stooges, for instance
- The Kingston ___
- King Cole's fiddlers, for one
- Pop music's Hanson, e.g.
- Small chamber group
- TLC, for one
- The Magi, by census
- The Police was one
- Bananarama, e.g.
- Quartet, after a desertion
- Rock group TLC, for one
- Country music's Dixie Chicks, e.g.
- Cream, for one
- Goldilocks's discoverers, e.g.
- Foursome minus one
- Group of three
- Larry, Moe, and Curly, e.g.
- Dixie Chicks or Destiny's Child
- Duo plus one
- Neapolitan ice cream flavors, e.g.
- Small musical group
- Green Day or the Limeliters
- One-third of a nonet
- The Andrew Sisters, e.g.
- Backup group, often
- Blind mice or "Jeopardy!" contestants
- Green Day, e.g.
- Lady Antebellum, for one
- Small band
- The Jonas Brothers, e.g.
- Wilson Phillips, e.g.
- ZZ Top, for example
- B-Rock & the Bizz, musically
- Chamber group, maybe
- Duet + one
- Kingston, for one
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, e.g.
- Crosby, Stills & Nash, e.g.
- Half a sextet
- Threesome
- Nirvana or Cream
- Peter, Paul, and Mary, for example
- Rush or Nirvana
- The Bee Gees or ZZ Top
- The Gorgons, e.g.
- The Jimi Hendrix Experience, for one
- Jeopardy! contestant panel, e.g.
- Cream, for example
- Old King Cole's fiddlers, for one
- The Police, for one
- Panic! at the Disco or fun.
- The Andrews Sisters or the Jonas Brothers
- Threesome on stage
- Musical group
- Troika
- Combo
- Fates or Furies
- Kingston group
- Peter, Paul & Mary, for one
- Jazz group
- Lounge act, at times
- This puzzle's theme
- Beethoven's "Archduke," for one
- Donald's nephews, e.g.
- Jazz club performer
- Rap's TLC, for one
- Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Cream, e.g.
- Many a jazz combo
- Wooden shoe sailors, e.g.
- The Goo Goo Dolls, e.g.
- Huey, Dewey and Louie, e.g.
- Many a pop group
- Men in a tub, e.g.
- Dumas's Musketeers, e.g.
- Minuet's middle section
- Old King Cole's fiddlers, e.g.
- The Stooges, for one
- Three of a kind
- Beethoven's "The Ghost," e.g.
- Combo in a small jazz club
- R&B's TLC, for one
- Beaux Arts __, classical musicians for 50+ years
- Bee Gees, e.g.
- Wilson Phillips, for one
- Folk music's Kingston __
- Jazz combo
- Nursery rhyme tub assembly, e.g.
- Small jazz group
- Quartet with an absentee
- The Musketeers, e.g.
- Alabama, but not Kansas?
- Common folk group
- Small music group
- Song for three
- Chamber group often including a piano
- Salt-N-Pepa, e.g.
- The Police, most of the time
- Macbeth witches, e.g.
- Little pigs, e.g.
- Rush or Cream
- Folk's Kingston __
- Piano __
- Piano-bass-drums jazz group, e.g.
- Small club group
- Small group
- Chamber music group
- 75% of a quartet
- Beethoven's Opus 11, e.g.
- Jazz __
- The Chipmunks, e.g.
- Beaux Arts __: longtime chamber music group
- Chamber group
- Cream or Nirvana
- Jazz club group
- Rock's Ben Folds Five, surprisingly
- Chamber music work
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer, e.g.
- Folk group, often
- Little pigs or blind mice
- Piece for three instruments
- The Chicks or ZZ Top
- Jeopardy! contestant contingent
- Chamber work
- TV quiz contestants, often
- Destiny's Child, e.g.
- Fairy tale bears, e.g.
- Goals in a hat trick, e.g.
- Rascal Flatts, e.g.
- The Chicks, e.g.
- The Schuyler sisters in "Hamilton," e.g.
- Jeopardy! contestant lineup, e.g.
- See 70-Across
- Nirvana, for one
- Snap, Crackle, and Pop, e.g.
- The Powerpuff Girls, e.g.
- Tom, Dick and Harry
- Club combo
- Sonata movement
- The Magi, for one
- Chad Mitchell's group
- Parton/Ronstadt/Harris album
- The Kingston __
- Musical ensemble
- Performance group
- Small singing group
- Three Little Maids From School, e.g.
- Septet - quartet
- Three-person band
- Chamber ensemble
- Dixie Chicks, for one
- Mother Goose's mice, e.g.
- Music for three
- Donald Duck's nephews, for one
- The Supremes, for example
- Andrews Sisters, e.g.
- String ensemble
- Dixie Chicks, for example
- Mozart movement
- Piece of chamber music
- Apollo mission astronauts
- Minuet movement
- Not a big band
- Piece for three
- Wedding band, at times
- Jonas Brothers, e.g.
- Jonas Brothers, for example
- The Supremes, for one
- Singing threesome
- Folk singing group, often
- Group of three singers
- 61 Across + 1
- Duo + one
- Performing threesome
- Small musical ensemble
- Magi, for instance
- Many a Greek goddess group
- Small dance troupe
- The Magi, for instance
- Threesome of performers
- Musical threesome
- Threesome of musicians
- Minuet middle
- The Andrews Sisters, for example
- The Police, e.g.
- Rush, for example
- Blink-182, e.g.
- Scherzo part
- Ben Folds Five, e.g.
- Right Said Fred, e.g.
- Rush, e.g.
- Three.
- Musical composition.
- The Andrews Sisters.
- Cutthroat bridge group.
- Musical rendition.
- Small musical combo.
- Three performers.
- You and me and the gatepost.
- Yum-Yum and friends.
- Three voices.
- Secondary movement in a minuet.
- What the Andrews Sisters are.
- Group of musicians.
- Musical form.
- Maugham's movie.
- Somerset Maugham's new picture.
- La Verne, Maxene and Patty.
- Ortheris, Learoyd and 94 Across.
- Piano, violin and cello.
- Somerset Maugham film.
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod, for instance.
- Group of singers.
- Movie of Mr. Maugham's stories.
- Sister act.
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod.
- Certain group.
- Chamber-music ensemble.
- Maugham movie.
- Piano, violin, cello.
- The Graces, for instance.
- Violinist, pianist and cellist.
- Wine, women and song, for instance.
- Choral group.
- See 5 Across.
- The Graces.
- The McGuires, for instance.
- Musical three.
- Part of a full house.
- Piece of music.
- The Musketeers, for instance.
- Beethoven's "Archduke," for example.
- Duet's rival.
- See 11 Down.
- The Fates or the Graces.
- Triumvirate.
- Fates or Graces.
- Troika, for example.
- Violin, cello, piano.
- Archduke ___, by Beethoven.
- Beethoven Opus 97, for one.
- Faith, hope, charity.
- Relative of a sextet.
- Wynken, Blynken and Nod, for example.
- Yum-Yum, Peep-Bo, and Pitti-Sing.
- Concert number.
- Outfield.
- Song by three.
- The Kingstons.
- Wine, women and song.
- Musical ones.
- The Rhinemaidens.
- Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.
- Dance group.
- Kipling's Ortheris, Learoyd and Mulvaney.
- Maugham book.
- Musical piece.
- See 33 Down.
- Troika team.
- Concerto form.
- Do, re, mi, for example.
- Ravel work, in A minor.
- Red, white, and blue.
- Triangle group.
- Faust finale.
- Tercet.
- The Fates.
- 20 Across plus one.
- Parcae.
- Performing group.
- Music group
- Musical work
- Minuet part
- Musketeers, e.g.
- Rock group
- String group
- The butcher, etc.
- Beethoven's "Archduke," e.g.
- Fates, e.g.
- Graces or Fates
- Magi, e.g.
- The Magi
- McGuire Sisters
- Musical combo
- King Cole's fiddlers
- Tinker and infield cohorts, e.g.
- Athos, Aramis and Porthos
- Musketeers or Magi
- Saranac Lakes, e.g.
- The R's of education
- Work by 1 Across
- Division of a march
- March division
- Subordinate division of a minuet
- Jolly ___, Hals painting
- Ax/Kim/Ma, e.g.
- Quintet less duet
- Ramsey Lewis ___
- The Gatlin Brothers, e.g.
- The Rover boys, e.g.
- Division of a minuet
- Gatlin Brothers, e.g.
- Lounge entertainment
- Nonet third
- Combo of a sort
- Tinker, Evers, Chance
- Columbus's fleet, e.g.
- Combo size
- Jazz combo, at times
- Ramsey Lewis, e.g.
- A combo
- Anagram for riot
- Hals's "Jolly ___"
- Kingston ___
- Minuet section
- Chamber piece
- Third of a nonet
- Pointer Sisters, e.g.
- Tinker, Evers and Chance
- Chamber-music composition
- D'Artagnan's pals, e.g.
- See 44 Down
- Beethoven's "Archduke ___"
- The Bee Gees
- The Graces, e.g.
- Weird sisters, e.g.
- Cinema Stooges, e.g.
- The Ames Brothers, e.g.
- The Johannes ___
- 50-Down, e.g.
- Rap's Salt-N-Pepa, e.g.
- Wynken, BIynken and Nod, e.g.
- Rock's Salt-N-Pepa, e.g.
- Rock's ZZ Top, e.g.
- Rap music's TLC, e.g.
- Rock music's Police, e.g.
- 38-Down, for example
- Run-D.M.C., e.g.
- Beethoven piano piece
- The Fleetwoods, e.g., of 50's-60's pop
- Fiddlers for 33-Across, e.g.
- Small group of carolers
- Dumas's musketeers, for example
- Minuet follower
- Pop music's TLC, e.g.
- Cream, of 1960's rock
- Backup singers, often
- Rock's Cream, e.g.
- Rock's Cream, for instance
- Haydn string composition
- Jazz group, often
- The Fleetwoods, for example
- ZZ Top, musically
- Quartet, after a defection
- Rock's Green Day, e.g.
- Rock's Green Day, for one
- ZZ Top, e.g.
- Alvin and the Chipmunks, e.g.
- Stooges, e.g.
- String ___
- The Ghostbusters, e.g.
- Chad Mitchell ___ (1960s folk band)
- The Brady boys or girls
- Chamber group, often
- Rock music's Rush, for one
- Threesome ... or a hint to this puzzle's theme
- The Rice Krispies mascots, e.g.
- The Ronettes, e.g.
- Jeopardy! contestants, e.g.
- Cream, for instance
- Peter, Paul & Mary, e.g.
- Rock's Police or Cream, e.g.
- The Marx Brothers, often
- Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, e.g.
- Athos, Porthos and Aramis, e.g.
- Half of a sextet
- Many a chamber piece
- Rock's Cream was one
- The Bee Gees, for much of their career
- The Gabor sisters, e.g.
- Sextet halved
- The biblical wise men, by tradition
- Witches in "Macbeth," e.g.
- Nirvana, e.g.
- The Jonas Brothers or Dixie Chicks
- The band Ben Folds Five, oddly
- More than a pair
- Bell Biv DeVoe or Bananarama
- Rap's Run-D.M.C., e.g.
- Something no two people can be
- Three for the show?
- Combo's rhythm section, maybe
- Snap, Crackle and Pop, for one
- The Minutemen, e.g.
- The constructors of this puzzle, e.g.
- The good fairies in "Sleeping Beauty," e.g.
- Many a jazz ensemble
- More than a couple
- Ben Folds Five, e.g., oddly enough
- Run-D.M.C. or De La Soul
- TLC or Run-D.M.C.
- Pop, culture, TV network
- Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha band
- Maroon 5, if two members were crushed by a piano (hey, a guy can dream)
- Kingston --
- The Little Pigs, e.g.
- Small musical band
- Set of three
- Three-piece band
- 3-piece band
- Dinosaur Jr., for one
- ELP, e.g.
- Alkaline ___
- Hip-hop's Fugees, e.g.
- Group with a third wheel
- Country's The Chicks, e.g.
- The Dixie Chicks, say
- Lounge group, often
- Power ___ (common rock-band format)
- The defenders in a 3-5-2 soccer formation, e.g.
- Pop's TLC, e.g.
- The Bee Gees or TLC, e.g.
- Wedding band, perhaps?
- Curly, Larry and Moe, e.g.
- Dixie Chicks, e.g.
- Fates or Furies, e.g.
- Not quite a quartet
- Quartet with one out sick
- Singer plus two
- The Dixie Chicks, for example
- The Kingston _____
- 17-Across
- Kingston, e.g.
- Quartet when one's out sick
- Bee Gees or The Stooges, e.g.
- Cole's fiddlers, e.g.
- Destiny's Child, among others
- It's short of a quartet
- Larry, Curly and Moe, for example
- Jeopardy! contestants, collectively
- Tom, Dick, and Harry for one
- Destiny's Child, for example
- Riot anagram
- Singer plus two, e.g.
- Certain chamber group
- Lounge group, perhaps
- Quartet with a defection
- Green Day or Cream, e.g.
- Group such as Sugababes
- One less than a quartet
- SWV or 702
- Salt-N-Pepa, originally
- The Pointer Sisters, for example
- The Powerpuff Girls, for example
- The Supremes or the Powerpuff Girls
- The band TLC, e.g.
- Anagram of "riot"
- Three-piece ensemble
- Soloist plus two
- The Stooges, by census
- It doesn't qualify as a duet
- The Three Tenors, for example
- Three blind mice, for one
- Three harmonizing as one
- The Three Tenors, obviously
- King Cole's fiddlers, as a group
- Old King Cole's fiddlers, collectively
- Small jazz ensemble
- The Three Stooges, e.g.
- Three-piece
- Ensemble of three
- Soloist X 3
- The Macbeth witches, e.g.
- The Three Little pigs, e.g.
- Three as a group
- Band such as Green Day
- Boyz II Men, e.g.
- Group of "Jeopardy!" contestants
- Quintet minus two
- Small string ensemble
- The Bee Gees or The Supremes
- Power rock group, typically
- Group such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer
- Octet minus five
- Ben Folds Five, inaptly
- Group such as 3LW, SWV or TLC
- Huey, Dewey and Louie, for one
- Green Day, for example
- Dumas heroes
- Wise men number?
- The Magi <P>e.g.
- Three blind mice
- Three singers
- Letters on a phone button e.g.
- Minuet division
- The Stooges
- The three tenors <P>e.g.
- Tinker Evers and Chance e.g.
- Contrasting music as in a march
- The Police were one
- Fates for one
- Lear's daughters e.g.
- Like the Graces
- Uno due y tre
- Chamber group, possibly
- Nat King Cole's group
- The Kingston, e.g.
- Wedding band?
- Landt group
- Second section of a minuet
- Tinkers, Evers and Chance
- Bass, piano and sax, e.g.
- Combo size, sometimes
- Lounge group
- You, me and somebody else
- Lounge group, sometimes
- Small jazz group, e.g.
- Kingston bunch
- Sextet X .5
- Blind mice, notably
- Small music ensemble
- Butcher, baker and candlestick maker
- Duo with a third wheel
- Singing group of three
- The Fates, for one
- The Stooges were one
- Three in key
- Destiny's Child was one
- Dumas' Musketeers, for one
- Group with three singers
- Quartet with an absence
- Small bar band
- Rock's Cream, for one
- Rock's ZZ Top is one
- Rock's ZZ Top, for one
- The Jonas Brothers were one
- Destiny's Child, for much of their career
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer was one
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer, for one
- Lady Antebellum or the Dixie Chicks
- Many a lounge group
- Rock music's Rush or the Police
- Rock music's Rush, e.g.
- The Dixie Chicks, for one
- The rock band Paramore, for one
- Biblical Magi, e.g.
- Crosby, Stills and 51-Down, e.g.
- Rock music's Cream was one
- Rock's Rush, e.g.
- Smallish combo
- The Police or ZZ Top
- Power rock band
- Wheel of Fortune contestants, e.g.
- Folk combo, perhaps
- Lounge combo, often
- Many a "power" rock band
- The 16-Across, e.g.
- The Marx Brothers, after 1933
- The Simpson kids, e.g.
- Tony! Toni! Tone!, e.g.
- Charlie's Angels, for example
- The band Haim, for one
- Destiny's Child or Charlie's Angels
- Group half the size of a sextet
- Powerpuff Girls, for one
- SWV or TLC, for example
- The Fugees, for example
- The Pointer Sisters, e.g.
- The Sanderson Sisters, e.g.
- The Fates in "Hercules," e.g.
- Chamber players
- Expanded duo
- Haim, for example
- Piano-violin-cello combo
- Power ___ (rock band format)
- Hip-hop's Run-DMC, e.g.
- Rock's Jawbreaker, e.g.
- The hip-hop group Cypress Hill, e.g.
- Dreamworks SKG founders, e.g.
- The Fugees, e.g.
- Country's Rascal Flatts, e.g.
- Green Day, for one
- Music's Clean Bandit, e.g.
- The Furies or the Fates, e.g.
- Music's Rush or Nirvana
- Rascal Flatts, for one
- The Police or Green Day
- Jazz combo, sometimes
- The Band Perry, for one
- The musketeers before d'Artagnan, e.g.
- The Bee Gees, for one
- The Chicks or Lady A, e.g.
- The Police or the Chicks, e.g.
- Peter, Paul and Mary, for one
- Many a jazz group