| POWELL | A Dance to the Music of Time, author (6) |
| ANTHONYPOWELL | A Dance To The Music Of Time author (7,6) |
| POUSSIN | French classical artist who painted A Dance to the Music of Time, the Venetian-inspired The Nurture of Bacchus, the pastoral Et in Arcadia ego and The Four Seasons series (7) |
| ANTHONY | First name of novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time (7) |
| NICOLAS | French Baroque painter known for works including A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-6) (7,7) |
| OFTIME | A Dance To The - - - - - - - - -, 12-volume book series by Anthony Powell (5,2,4) |
| FACADE | Ballet by Frederick Ashton set to the music of William Walton (6) |
| DANCE | A ___ to the Music of Time; painting by Nicolas Poussin that inspired Anthony Powell's novel of the same name (5) |
| BOLERO | Leo and Rob did a dance to Ravel's famous piece (6) |
| ASHTON | Dancer who choreographed ballets to the music of composers including William Walton, Constant Lambert, Edward Elgar and Frederic Chopin (6) |
| LIVELY | A Stitch in Time, author (6) |
| STUPOR | In search of lost time, author is in a daze |
| LENGLE | A Wrinkle in Time author Madeleine |
| SPENCE | "How to Argue and Win Every Time" author |
| PROUST | "In Search of Lost Time" author |
| BISTRO | Small time writer describing spot for clarinet? (6) |
| MUSETTE | French bagpipe popular in court circles of the 17th and 18th centuries; a gavotte or pastoral air with a drone bass suggestive of said shepherd's pipe; or, a dance to such a melody (7) |
| HAWKING | *"A Brief History of Time" author |
| STEPHENHAWKINGWARES | 'A Brief History of Time' author peddling goods? |
| STEPHENHAWKING | "A Brief History of Time" author doing sales? |
