| ALBANBERG | Austrian composer whose 1935 violin concerto is dedicated 'in memory of an angel', to Manon Gropius, daughter of Mahler's widow by her second husband |
| DALI | Figure to whom a museum is dedicated in Figueres |
| EMINOR | Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is in it |
| CLOUDNINE | Surely you'd have to be an angel to find such intense happiness? (5,4) |
| ONTHEFIDDLE | How a violin concerto is played dishonestly (2,3,6) |
| BACKS | Is an angel to |
| ROTE | One's memory of an old stringed instrument is mechanical (4) |
| SCAR | Memory of an injury |
| EMBER | Lasting memory of an old flame? |
| OISTRAKH | David ___, violinist who was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Shostakovich's violin concertos and the violin concerto by Khachaturian |
| CHILL | An unpleasant feeling of shiver-inducing coldness in one's body, bones or surrounding air, as portrayed in Vivaldi's "Winter" violin concerto, so evocative of a teeth-chatteringly frosty bite it raise |
| ALUMINUM | Stuff used to make the 2.85 kg pyramidal cap of the Washington Monument, dedicated in 1885 |
| HALO | Circle of light around the sun or moon; or, such an aureola around the head of an angel/saint in a painting (4) |
| JANETFRAME | Author of An Angel at My Table, who was born in Dunedin in 1924 and died there in 2004 (5,5) |
| SHORTSUBJECT | Canadian filmmaker Ben Proudfoot is a co-nominee (with Kris Bowers) in the 'Documentary (___ ___)' category for "A Concerto is a Conversation" at the upcoming Oscars on Sunday, April 25th, 2021 |
| BRAHMS | German composer of the 1878 Violin Concerto in D major (6) |
| VIVALDI | Composer whose violin concerto Autumn forming part of The Four Seasons depicts the revelry at a harvest festival followed by a dawn hunt pursuing a fleeting beast (7) |
| YEHUDIMENUHIN | American-born violinist who recorded Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto in B minor in 1932 with the composer himself conducting (6,7) |
| EMAJ | Key of the last movement of Mendelssohn's Op. 64 violin concerto |
| VIOTTI | Giovanni Battista ___, Italian composer of twenty-nine violin concertos who died in 1824 (6) |