| ABBADO | Claudio ___, Italian conductor born in 1933 (6) |
| SCHIFF | Andras, classical pianist and conductor born in Hungary in 1953 (6) |
| REINER | Fritz ****** , US conductor born in Budapest in 1888 (6) |
| CASALS | Pablo, Spanish-born cellist and conductor born in 1876 noted for his consummate musicianship (6) |
| RATTLE | Simon, British conductor born in 1955 (6) |
| PREVIN | US pianist and conductor born in Germany in 1929 |
| BOULEZ | Pierre ___, French composer and conductor born in 1925 (6) |
| SHEILA | ____ Hancock, actress born in 1933 and made a dame in 2021 (6) |
| DIANNE | ****** Feinstein, late long-serving Californian senator born in 1933 (6) |
| SONTAG | Susan **** US writer and public intellectual born in 1933 (6) |
| FRASER | Neale, tennis player born in 1933 who won three Grand Slam singles titles (6) |
| RIVERS | Joan, U.S. comedian and actress born in 1933 noted for her acerbic wit (6) |
| APRILE | Claudio ___, Judge on "Masterchef Canada" |
| ARTURO | ___ Toscanini, Italian conductor (6) |
| MONTEVERDI | Claudio ___, Italian composer born in 1567 noted for his Vespers (10) |
| TOSCANINI | Arturo ___, Italian conductor and cellist who died in 1957 (9) |
| DANIELBARENBOIM | Classical pianist and conductor born in Buenos Aires in 1942 (6,9) |
| OTTO | ___ Klemperer, American conductor born in Germany in 1885, internationally noted in opera and concerts (4) |
| SOLTI | Georg, British conductor born in Hungary in 1912 (5) |
| HAITINK | Bernard, Amsterdam-born conductor born in 1929 (7) |
