| JOHANNSEBASTIAN | (and 5 down) German composer of the Baroque period (15) |
| FRANZ | With 5-Down, German actor who plays one of the husbands on "Passages" |
| BACH | Johann Sebastian _, German composer of the Baroque period (4) |
| JOHANNSEBASTIANBACH | German composer of the Baroque period (6,9,4) |
| HANDEL | George Frideric _, German-British composer of the Baroque period (6) |
| BUXTEHUDE | Dieterich, composer of the Baroque period who died in 1707 (9) |
| BACHS | Prolific composing family of the baroque period |
| TELEMANN | Georg Philipp --, German composer of the late Baroque period (8) |
| DMAJOR | The "key of glory," in the Baroque period |
| CORELLI | Italian composer of the Baroque (7) |
| FUGUE | Musical composition popular in the Baroque period (5) |
| KIRTLES | Women's skirts or dresses worn from the late Middle Ages into the Baroque period (7) |
| TOCCATA | Rapid keyboard composition for organ dating from the baroque period (7) |
| VIOL | Stringed instrument popular in the Baroque period (4) |
| TOCCATAS | Rapid keyboard compositions dating from the baroque period (8) |
| OBOEDACACCIA | Double reed woodwind instrument used in the Baroque period (4,2,6) |
| RICHARDWAGNER | German composer of the epic four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung in the 1860s and 1870s (7,6) |
| ROCOCO | Concerto Grosso lacks songster - the one that's theatrically ornate at the end of the Baroque movement (6) |
| VALLETTA | Island capital, location of the baroque Co-Cathedral of St John |
| RUBENS | Flemish painter of the baroque style, knighted by Charles I of England (6) |
