| MAESTRO | A virtuoso in music or some art possibly (7) |
| TIERCES | An old name for thirds, in music or some measurements |
| STRAINS | Gentle music or some big orchestra instead? (7) |
| JIBE | Taunt boy replacing original virtuoso in dance (4) |
| WHIZ | Virtuoso, in slang |
| REPLICA | Word, from "answer, reply", for a repeat in music; or, a copy in art (7) |
| AMADEUS | Falco called him a punk, a virtuoso, and a rock idol in a 1986 hit song |
| TOCCATA | A virtuoso musical composition for a keyboard or plucked string instrument (7) |
| CADENZA | A virtuoso (improvised) passage by the soloist in a concerto (7) |
| CONCORD | Meaning "of the same heart or mind", harmony in music or between groups, nations or people (7) |
| CURATOR | Person in museum initially consulted on our art, possibly |
| COMPOSE | Create in music or writing (7) |
| HOLIDAY | "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." |
| ARTFORM | Boy topping class in music or poetry? |
| THEME | A topic; a recurrent idea in art/ literature; a motif/subject in music; or, a setting given to a pub/restaurant (5) |
| RHYTHM | Describing beat, cadence, flow or tempo in music or a harmonious sequence of colours or elements in art, one of the longest words in the English dictionary without vowels (6) |
| BEAT | Topic covered by a journalist or a reporter; a pulsation of the heart; rhythm in music or poetry; or, a stretch of river fished by an angler (4) |
| BASS | One of the words for a flax, hemp, jute or lime fibre bag for holding an angler's fish; a powerful sea perch with a brilliant silver body; or, from "low", the lowest part in music or the deepest male |
| EXERCISE | Word, from "keep busy, unrestrain", for a military drill, a class assignment, a study in music or a task such as a sit-up during one's time to train (8) |
| FADE | Gradual increase or decrease in volume in music; or, a dissolve from one image to another in film (4) |
