| DRAGANDDROP | Apt description of a performance in which queens do shablams |
| SOUPEDUP | Informal description of a performance-enhanced car (6-2) |
| FORTUNETELLER | Visionary and affecting melody, main part of Rossini opera to which Queen's attached |
| RUNDOWN | Seedy, and an apt description of a word hidden in 3-, 9-, 29- and 33-Down |
| DROPPEDCALL | Weak signal result, and an apt description of a word hidden in 3-, 8-, 18- and 20-Down |
| BLOCKBUSTER | Hugely successful film ... or an apt description of a 59-Down player? |
| TILBURY | Port town in Essex in which Queen Elizabeth I addressed her troops in 1588, giving a famous speech (7) |
| AMATI | Violin in a performance in the afternoon? More than half of it (5) |
| CALDWELL | "Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do." In 1976 she became the first woman conductor of a performance by the Metropolitan Opera in N |
| OPERETTA | Performance in which a poet sheds a tear (8) |
| MAGICACT | Performance in which a lady might be sawed in half |
| GLAMIS | Small village in Angus, Scotland, the location of the castle in which Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother grew up (6) |
| ENCORED | Extended a performance, in a way |
| TRADEUNION | Intrude on a performance in a working men's club (5,5) |
| SOLO | Performance in which a musician plays alone |
| STACCATO | Method of musical performance in which notes are separately articulated (8) |
| LIONDANCE | Traditional Chinese performance in which participants wear a feline costume: 2 wds. |
| ANNEXE | Additional accommodation in which queen gets to kiss sweetheart (6) |
| RISK | Board game in which queen is next to king (4) |
| HAIRSPRAY | 2007 movie musical in which Queen Latifah played Maybelle |
