| FATSWALLER | Jazz pianist who wrote the tune Honeysuckle Rose (4,6) |
| OSCARPETERSON | Jazz pianist who wrote "Canadiana Suite" |
| ERROLLGARNER | American pianist who wrote the jazz standard Misty in 1954 (6,6) |
| BIZET | Georges _, French Romantic composer and pianist who wrote the 1875 opera Carmen (5) |
| CHICKCOREA | Jazz pianist who played in Miles Davis's band |
| CRADLESONG | Cook recalled the departure of the French with the tune for a lullaby (6,4) |
| BANDLEADER | Big-headed and head of the players, this one calls the tune. (10) |
| INSTITUTES | Establishes when the tune is played the birds climb in (10) |
| PETERASHER | Partner of Gordon Waller on the tune "A World Without Love" |
| CHOPIN | Frederic -; virtuoso pianist who wrote Nocturnes, Op. 9 (6) |
| WALLER | see 32dn, American jazz pianist whose best-known compositions include Ain't Misbehavin' and Honeysuckle Rose |
| FATS | and 46dn, American jazz pianist whose best-known compositions include Ain't Misbehavin' and Honeysuckle Rose |
| ANITA | O'Day who sang "Honeysuckle Rose" |
| ODAY | American song stylist Anita who sang "Honeysuckle Rose" |
| BEINCHARGE | Call the tune |
| WOOD | Actress, comedienne and pianist who wrote and co-starred in dinnerladies, Housewife, 49 and Pat and Margaret (4) |
| HERBIEHANCOCK | Genre-hopping jazz pianist who scored the "Fat Albert" theme song |
| ARTTATUM | American jazz pianist who posthumously received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1989 |
| NAT | Swing jazz pianist who played with the greats from Louis Armstrong to Sarah Vaughan, ... Jaffe |
| SHEARING | George, British jazz pianist who became a permanent resident of the US in 1949 (8) |
