| WEBSTER | Ben --, jazz saxophonist and member of Duke Ellington's band (7) |
| SHORTER | Wayne, late jazz saxophonist and member of the Miles Davis Quintet from 1964 to 1968 (7) |
| CAT | -- Anderson, member of Duke Ellington's orchestra (3) |
| FREDA | ___ Payne, singer with Duke Ellington's band |
| INDIGO | Color of Duke Ellington's "Mood" |
| SAX | One was blown in Ellington's band |
| ORNETTE | Jazz saxophonist and composer born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1930 (7,7) |
| COLEMAN | Jazz saxophonist and composer born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1930 (7,7) |
| YOLANDA | ____ Brown, jazz saxophonist and composer born in 1982 (7) |
| CHARLIEPARKER | American jazz saxophonist and leader of the bop style of jazz, nickname 'Bird' (7,6) |
| ALCOHN | American jazz saxophonist and arranger/composer who played in Woody Herman's Second Herd as one of the Four Brothers, along with Zoot Sims, Stan Getz and Serge Chaloff |
| GERRYMULLIGAN | Baritone jazz saxophonist and contributor to the album Birth of the Cool (5,8) |
| YARDBIRD | Nickname of American jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker (8) |
| SCOTT | Ronnie ___, English jazz saxophonist and club owner who died in 1996 (5) |
| COLTRANE | John ___, US jazz saxophonist and composer who died in 1967 (8) |
| BECHET | Sidney --, American jazz saxophonist and clarinettist (6) |
| ORNETTECOLEMAN | US jazz saxophonist and composer whose 1958 debut album was Something Else!!!! |
| JOHNCOLTRANE | US jazz saxophonist and composer who died in 1967 (4,8) |
| SOWETO | ____ Kinch, British jazz saxophonist and rapper born in 1978 (6) |
| TEO | Jazz saxophonist and producer Macero |