| BARBIROLLI | Conductor of the Halle Orchestra from 1943-70 |
| SIRJOHNBARBIROLLI | Conductor of the Halle Orchestra from 1943 to 1958 (3,4,10) |
| ELDER | Sir Mark, Music Director of the Halle Orchestra since September 2000 (5) |
| PEARL | Nickname of US rock singer Janis Joplin (1943-70), used as the title of her posthumous second album (1971) (5) |
| JOPLIN | Janis ___ (1943-70) |
| MANCHESTER | City of the Halle Orch. |
| RATTLE | Simon ___, Chief Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra from 2002 (6) |
| HAITINK | Bernard ?, Principal Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1967-79 (7) |
| COLIN | Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995-2006 (5,5) |
| DAVIS | Principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1995-2006 (5,5) |
| ABBADO | Claudio -; principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from 1979-88 (6) |
| ADRIANBOULT | Knighted conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1930 to 1950 (6,5) |
| ASSISTS | Being part of the orchestra from the beginning helps (7) |
| CHINDIT | Member of the Allied forces commanded by Orde Wingate which fought in Burma from 1943-45 (7) |
| OPPENHEIMER | J. Robert, director of the atom bomb project at Los Alamos from 1943-45 (11) |
| SCOTT | Failsworth's Jonathan and Tom ___, who perform as The ___ Brothers Duo; Tom, is a virtuoso pianist, and Jonathan plays organ with the Halle and BBC Philharmonic (5) |
| HIMMLER | Heinrich ___, Interior Minister of Germany from 1943-45 (7) |
| GARTH | Comic strip that appeared in the Daily Mirror from 1943 to 1997 |
| SIRADRIANBOULT | Conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for most of the 1950s |
| BARENBOIM | Daniel -, Argentina-born conductor and pianist; music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991-2006 (9) |
