| SERGEIPROKOFIEV | 20th-century Russian classical composer (6,9) |
| IGOR | 20th century Russian composer ___ Stravinsky |
| SERGEI | 20th-century Russian composer, pianist and conductor, _ Prokofiev (6) |
| STALIN | 20th Century Russian leader nicknamed Uncle Joe (6) |
| ROTHKO | Mark -, 20th-Century Russian-American painter (6) |
| VLADIMIR | 20th-century Russian author whose novels include Lolita, _ Nabokov (8) |
| FORMALISM | Early 20th-century Russian literary movement (9) |
| ENRIQUEGRANADOS | Spanish classical composer |
| BROWBEATBERLIOZ | Intimidate a classical composer? |
| AYNRAND | 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (3,4) |
| RAND | Ayn ---, 20th Century Russian-American novelist whose works included The Fountainhead (4) |
| GALINAULANOVA | 20th-century Russian ballet dancer whose Moscow apartment is now a museum (6,7) |
| CHAGALL | Marc -, twentieth century Russian-born French artist |
| IBERT | 20th century French classical composer who wrote the score for Orson Welles' 1948 film version of Ma |
| CLAUDE | 19th-century French classical composer (6,7) |
| DEBUSSY | 19th-century French classical composer (6,7) |
| BORODIN | Alexander ?, 19th-century Russian composer of unfinished opera Prince Igor |
| BRAHMS | 19th-century German classical composer (surname) who wrote A German Requiem (6) |
| SPOHR | Classical composer, Louis ___ (b.1784 d.1859) |
| BACH | Classic classical composer |