| SCOTTJOPLIN | American ragtime composer and pianist who died in 1917 (5,6) |
| BORGE | Victor, Danish entertainer and pianist who died in 2000 (5) |
| SHIMMY | American ragtime dance involving shaking of the hips and shoulders (6) |
| LISZT | Hungarian composer and pianist who in his youth studied with Salieri in Vienna |
| CHOPIN | Composer and pianist who wrote Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23 and Nocturne, Op 9, No. 2 (6) |
| STAN | And 14 Ac. American jazz pianist who died in 1979 (4,6) |
| STILL | Andrew Taylor ?, American founder of osteopathy who died in 1917 (5) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm -, English actor and manager who died in 1917 (4) |
| DEGAS | Edgar, French impressionist painter and sculptor who died in 1917 (5) |
| DIMITRI | Russian-American composer and pianist who authored 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me (7,7) |
| TIOMKIN | Russian-American composer and pianist who authored 1959 autobiography Please Don't Hate Me (7,7) |
| SCHUMANN | German composer and pianist who married his piano teacher Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840 (6,8) |
| ROBERT | German composer and pianist who married his piano teacher Friedrich Wieck's daughter Clara in 1840 (6,8) |
| BIZET | Georges _, French Romantic composer and pianist who wrote the 1875 opera Carmen (5) |
| TATUM | Art, American jazz pianist who died in 1956 (5) |
| CODY | William Frederick ?, US showman also called Buffalo Bill who died in 1917 |
| ZEPPELIN | Ferdinand von -, German airship pioneer who died in 1917 (8) |
| RODIN | Auguste, French sculptor who died in 1917 (5) |
| MCCABE | John ___, British composer and pianist who was director of the London College of Music from 1983 to 1990 |
| BLAKE | Eubie, US jazz and ragtime composer who died in 1983 (5) |
