| FATS | --- Waller, American jazz pianist and composer who co-wrote the 1929 song Ain't Misbehavin' (4) |
| FATSWALLER | American jazz pianist and composer who co-wrote the 1929 song Ain't Misbehavin' (4,6) |
| PRIESTLEY | J B _, Yorkshire writer who wrote the 1929 novel The Good Companions (9) |
| MONK | Thelonious ?, US jazz pianist and composer who died in 1982 (4) |
| STAN | And 14 Ac. American jazz pianist who died in 1979 (4,6) |
| ZAPPA | Frank ?, US musician and composer who co-wrote and co-directed 1971 film fantasy 200 Motels (5) |
| THAN | "More ___ You Know" (1929 song) |
| COLE | American jazz pianist Nat King ___ |
| READE | Composer who co-wrote the theme music for Antiques Roadshow and The Victorian Kitchen Garden (5) |
| ERROL | and 48dn, American jazz pianist and composer whose best-known composition, Misty, has become a jazz standard |
| GARNER | American jazz pianist and composer whose ballad Misty has become a jazz standard |
| ERROLL | American jazz pianist and composer whose ballad Misty has become a jazz standard |
| COUNTBASIE | American jazz pianist and composer, 1904-1984, who led an orchestra he created in 1935 (5,5) |
| HAMLISCH | Marvin ___ (Movie score composer who co-wrote Barbra Streisand's "The Way We Were") |
| RALPH | ___ Sharon, British-american jazz pianist and arranger who released his trio's album, "The Magic of Cole Porter" in 2000 |
| STORMYWEATHER | 1943 film that featured the song Ain't Misbehavin' (6,7) |
| SCHIFRIN | Lalo, Argentine-U.S. pianist and composer who wrote the scores for the Dirty Harry film series (8) |
| HINES | Earl, American jazz pianist and bandleader (5) |
| BASIE | Count ___, American jazz pianist and bandleader (5) |
| ELLINGTON | Jazz pianist and composer who helped develop the big band style |
