| THENUTCRACKER | 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet based on a story by E T A Hoffmann |
| SLEEPINGBEAUTY | The ____ is a Tchaikovsky ballet based on a fairy tale |
| NUTCRACKER | 1892 Tchaikovsky ballet, with "The" |
| DONQUIXOTE | Ballet based on a 1605 novel, by George |
| CINDERELLA | Prokofiev ballet based on a fairy tale |
| ELIXIRS | 1815 novel by E T A Hoffmann (3,6,7) |
| THEDEVILS | And 15 1815 novel by E T A Hoffmann (3,6,7) |
| THEDEVILSELIXIRS | 1815 novel by E T A Hoffmann |
| SANDMAN | Folkloric inspiration for E. T. A. Hoffmann, Neil Gaiman, and Metallica |
| ONDINE | Ballet based on the story of a naiad who falls in love with a mortal man (6) |
| LESSYLPHIDES | 1909 ballet based on piano works by Chopin (3,9) |
| HOFFMANN | E. T. A. -; German writer whose novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was adapted into a ballet with a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (8) |
| ROMEO | Prokofiev's ballet based on Shakespeare's play, ... And Juliet |
| RODEO | Copland ballet based on American folk material |
| POSTMATES | Delivery app with a logo inspired by E.T. |
| PLANET | Scheme, maybe, put together by E.T. for what might be a habitable world ? (6) |
| ATC | Grp. that coordinates E.T.A. and E.T.D. |
| FAIRBANKS | City in Alaska, US, founded by E T Barnette in 1901 (9) |
| PIECES | Reese's ___(rhyming candy favored by E.T.) |
| ARR | What the "A" of E.T.A. stands for: Abbr. |