| WEBER | Baron Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von --, 1786-1826, German composer (5) |
| RADON | Chemical element 86, first isolated as 'radium emanation' by German physicist Friedrich Ernst Dorn in 1900 (5) |
| DOHNANYI | Erno or Ernst von --, Hungarian pianist and composer (8) |
| ADAMS | John ___ ( 1735 - 1826), the second president of the USA ( 5) |
| GLASS | What product do you associate with the Pilkington brothers who made it from 1826? (5) |
| HUNAU | City in central Germany noted as the birthplace of Jakob (1785) and Wilhelm (1786) Grimm (5) |
| SHAYS | Leader of a Mass. rebellion: 1786-87 |
| UNCAS | Title character in 1826 J F Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans |
| DAVID | Father Armand ___ (1826-1900) |
| BURKE | John ___, Irish genealogist who first published his Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United Kingdom in 1826 |
| PAULHINDEMITH | German-born composer of the opera Mathis der Maler and the orchestral work Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (4,9) |
| INVITATION | "Come Dancing" with Carl Maria von - (10,2,3,5) |
| EURYANTHE | Opera by Carl Maria von Weber (9) |
| DER | "___ FreischAA¼tz" (Carl Maria von Weber opera) |
| VON | Composer Carl Maria ___ Weber |
| OPERAS | Works of Carl Maria von Weber |
| MENDELSSOHN | Felix ---, German composer of the overture A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826) |
| MONTBLANC | Peak first ascended in 1786 by Michel-Gabriel Paccard and Jacques Balmat (4,5) |
| TOAMOUSE | Common name for Robert Burns's poem published in Scots in 1786 (2,1,5) |
| RURALRIDES | William Cobbett's best-known work originally published in serial form in the Political Register from 1822 to 1826 (5,5) |