| VAUGHAN | And 3 Ralph --- ---, English composer inspired by folk music, whose works include 1914's The Lark Ascending (7,8) |
| WILLIAMS | Ralph --- ---, English composer inspired by folk music, whose works include 1914's The Lark Ascending (7,8) |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy _, Hungarian-austrian composer of contemporary classical music whose works included Atmospheres (6) |
| VAUGHANWILLIAMS | Ralph --, composer inspired by British folk songs and music of the Tudor period (7,8) |
| ELGAR | Composer inspired by opera gleefully rising (5) |
| INGE | William Ralph --, English theologian known as The Gloomy Dean (4) |
| FIENNES | Ralph, English actor who played M in the 2015 Bond film Spectre (7) |
| BOMBERG | David ?, British painter associated with Vorticism whose works include 1914's The Mud Bath (7) |
| UTRILLO | Maurice, painter whose works include 1914's Ancien domaine de Gabrielle d'Estrees (7) |
| DAVIES | Former Master of the Queen's Music whose music-theatre monodrama, Eight Songs for a Mad King, is based on words and observations of George III (6) |
| RALPH | English composer whose works include The Lark Ascending (5,7,8) |
| JIGS | The tunes "The Blarney Pilgrim" and "The Lark in the Morning," e.g. |
| MEREDITH | Victorian poet whose The Lark Ascending inspired the work by Vaughan Williams |
| JAZZ | Type of music whose styles include bepop, trad and modern |
| RAP | Music whose golden age is said to be from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s |
| EUTERPE | Muse of flute playing, lyric poetry and music whose name means 'to delight' or 'well pleasing' |
| CROPREDY | Village near Banbury that holds an annual music festival set up by folk-rock band Fairport Convention (8) |
| CLEVERDICK | Ticker having undergone heart transplant, composer inspired to become show-off? (6,4) |
| ABA | 1914's "The ___ Daba Honeymoon" |
| DYAK | Daypack taken now and then by folk from Borneo (4) |
