| OMPHALE | Character depicted by Saint-saens with old mezzo piano sound (7) |
| SEMPRE | Mezzo-piano in start of sonata before? It's always in the score (6) |
| COOSER | Malcolm Arnold perhaps drops mezzo-piano for Tam O'Shanter's ride? |
| ASCANIO | A view, one posed by overture to opera - opera by Saint-Saens (7) |
| MACABRE | 1874 symphonic poem by Saint-Saens (5,7) |
| CLAVIUS | Character depicted by Joseph Fiennes in the forthcoming film Risen (7) |
| REACHER | Lee Child character depicted by Tom Cruise in two movies (7) |
| ANIMALS | Work by composer Saint-Saens, Carnival of the ___ (7) |
| THESWAN | Saint-Saens work with a memorable cello solo |
| TITANIA | A character depicted in Sir Edwin Henry Landseer's painting Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (7) |
| PHAETON | Tone poem by Saint-Saens involving the piano? Not I (7) |
| DANSEMACABRE | Man ceased working with bar in tone poem by Saint-Saens (5,7) |
| CAMILLE | Composer Saint Saens |
| DANSE | 1874 symphonic poem by Saint-Saens (5,7) |
| CARNIVAL | Piece by Saint-Saens rearranged all five harmonics at a close of variation (8,2,3,7) |
| OFTHEANIMALS | Piece by Saint-Saens rearranged all five harmonics at a close of variation (8,2,3,7) |
| FLUESTOPS | Possibly felt opus by Saint-Saens initially required organ parts (4,5) |
| PETER | Character depicted by string instruments in a classical composition for children by Sergei Prokofiev (5) |
| RYDER | Charles -; character depicted by Jeremy Irons in a 1981 television serial (5) |
| BEAN | Mr -; character depicted by Rowan Atkinson (4) |
