| BALLET | "The Nutcracker," for one |
| WALTZ | The final dance in "The Nutcracker," for one |
| ASTRONAUT | A 23 across nutcracker for Yuri (9) |
| ANGLAIS | Paired with "cor", one of the woodwinds forming part of the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's score for the Christmas ballet The Nutcracker that, despite its name, is neither English nor a horn (7) |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| CLARA | Girl who gets the nutcracker in "The Nutcracker" |
| FLOWERS | Tchaikovsky's piece from The Nutcracker Suite, the Waltz Of The ... |
| HOFFMANN | E.T.A. ___; author of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the Christmas story that was adapted into a ballet (8) |
| TCHAIKOCSKY | Russian composer whose most famous works include The 1812 Overture and the ballet The Nutcracker (11) |
| KEIRA | ___ Knightley, actress playing the Sugar Plum Fairy in Disney's The Nutcracker And The Four Realms, out this week (pictured top) (5) |
| PLUM | Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker, features The Dance Of The Sugar ... Fairy |
| SUGARPLUM | Dance Of The ____ Fairy, movement in the ballet The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky (5,4) |
| HEDGEYOURBALLETS | Schedule both "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker" instead of just one or the other? |
| CELESTA | Keyboard instrument used in the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy in Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker (7) |
| DANCEOFTHESUGARPLUMFAIRY | Composition for the ballet 'The Nutcracker' which is played on a celesta (5,2,3,5,4,5) |
| HUNTED | Looked for the nutcracker he had hidden (6) |
| MOUSE | The King (character in The Nutcracker) (5) |
| TALE | "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King," e.g. |
| HUNTER | Watch the woman holding the nutcracker |
| ASLEEP | Like Clara for most of "The Nutcracker" |
