| BRIGITTA | Bookish child of the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music who is aged 10 in the film (8) |
| MARTA | Governess of the von Trapp family in the musical The Sound Of Music (5) |
| RAINBOW | Name for a girl guide who is aged under seven (7) |
| ABCS | Leaders admire bookish child showing what they've been learning in school |
| RICHARD | ___ Rodgers composer with works like Oklahoma!' and The Sound of Music who was the first person to win the EGOT |
| LIESL | Character in The Sound of Music who sings Sixteen Going on Seventeen |
| TRAPP | Von --, family in 'The Sound of Music' (5) |
| VON | ___ Trapps (family in "The Sound of Music") |
| KYM | ___ Karath actress who plays Gretl the youngest of the von Trapp children in the 1965 musical drama film The Sound of Music |
| CARR | Charmian ___ actress who plays Liesl the oldest of the von Trapp children in the 1965 musical drama film The Sound of Music |
| AUS | Country where the von Trapp family lived, in "The Sound of Music": Abbr. |
| FELAKUTI | Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer and pioneer of afrobeat music who died in 1997 |
| DOEADEER | Beginning of a refrain sung by Maria and the von Trapp children |
| ANGELA | Cartwright who played one of the von Trapp children in "The Sound of Music" |
| AUSTRIA | Home of the von Trapp family |
| OLDFLAME | Ex is aged. loud and disabled (3,5) |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| DOREMI | First song sung by Maria to the von Trapp children in the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music (2-2-2) |
| THESOUNDOFMUSIC | Oscar-winning musical based on the memoir of Maria von Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers |
| SARGENT | Sir Malcolm ___, English conductor and self-styled 'ambassador of music' who was chief conductor of the Proms from 1947 to 1967 (7) |
