| QUINCY | American composer and record producer, ... Jones |
| RYCOODER | American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer (2,6) |
| BAPPI | ____ Lahiri, Indian singer, composer and record producer |
| BRIANENO | English composer and record producer associated with ambient music |
| ENO | Brian ?, English composer and record producer associated with ambient music |
| COLEPORTER | American composer and songwriter whose songs include Night and Day, I Get a Kick out of You and I've Got You Under My Skin |
| SCOTTJOPLIN | African-American composer and pianist whose compositions included Maple Leaf Rag and The Entertainer (5,6) |
| GERSHWIN | George ---, American composer and pianist whose works included the 1935 opera Porgy And Bess (8) |
| SONDHEIM | Stephen _, American composer and lyricist whose famous scores include Company and Sweeney Todd (8) |
| IRVINGBERLIN | American composer and lyricist whose songs included White Christmas (1942) |
| GEORGEMCOHAN | [NEXT] American composer and lyricist |
| GIANCARLOMENOTTI | Italian-American composer and librettist, 1911-2007 (4,5,7) |
| CAGE | John _, (1912-92), American composer and music theorist (4) |
| COPLAND | American composer and officer arrive at Heathrow, maybe (7) |
| BACHARACH | Surname of Burt, American composer and songwriter (9) |
| IRVING | -- Berlin, American composer and lyricist |
| MACDOWELL | American composer and staff mostly succeed (9) |
| SOUSA | American composer and bandmaster who composed over a hundred popular marches |
| ALANSILVESTRI | American composer and conductor who scored music for Back to the Future: 2 wds. |
| TIOMKIN | Dimitri ?, Russian-American composer and pianist; author of 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me |
