| RAINDROP | - Prelude, nickname of Frederic Chopin's Prelude in D Flat major, Opus 28 of 1839 (8) |
| INEMINOR | Like Chopin's Opus 28 No. 4, or Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 |
| FIVE | ___ Easy Pieces 1970 drama film that features Frederic Chopin's Prelude Op. 28 No. 4 |
| ESOTERIC | See trio playing Chopin's prelude in secret (8) |
| PRECLUDE | A hundred absorbed by prelude in bar (8) |
| OPIUMWAR | Conflict of 1839-42 between Britain and China (5,3) |
| ELECTORS | New York has 28 of them |
| CHOPIN | Frederic ___, Polish composer whose Waltz in D Flat Major, Op 64 No 1 is known as the Minute Waltz ( |
| FIVEEASYPIECES | They included Chopin's "Prelude in E Minor," in a film title |
| EMPEROR | Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Opus 73, is known as the --- Concerto (7) |
| EMINOR | Chopin's "Prelude in ___" |
| MIN | Ostensible duration of a famous waltz in D-flat maj. |
| USHER | 'The Fall of the House of ---', 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe (5) |
| GRAMS | There are just over 28 of these in an ounce (5) |
| TWELFTH | Glorious day almost here: time for 20 in which 12 be the 28 of 1 |
| PERPENDICULAR | Upright piano, with arrangement of a prelude in C, right? (13) |
| VALKYRIES | Prelude in the second of Wagner's operas that make up the Ring cycle (4,2,3,9) |
| RIDEOFTHE | Prelude in the second of Wagner's operas that make up the Ring cycle (4,2,3,9) |
| ELLERYQUEEN | Detective creation of Frederic Dannay and Manfred B Lee (6,5) |
| OPIUM | Subject of wars of 1839-42 and 1856-60 |
