| ZIMMER | Composer voted as one of the top 100 living geniuses who wrote the scores for blockbusters including |
| PARASITIC | Eccentric apiarist, 100, living off others (9) |
| WIDERELEASE | Distribution method for blockbusters |
| TAPEDROP | Convenience for Blockbuster customers |
| TAHITI | Pacific island makes oddly tragic setting for blockbuster, perhaps |
| AURIC | Member of Les Six who wrote the scores for the 1950s films The Lavender Hill Mob and Moulin Rouge (5) |
| WILLIAMS | John -; composer who wrote the scores for films including Jaws, Star Wars, E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial and Schindler's List (8) |
| ARNOLD | Malcolm, British composer who wrote the score for the 1957 film The Bridge On The River Kwai (6) |
| SCHIFRIN | Lalo, Argentine-U.S. pianist and composer who wrote the scores for the Dirty Harry film series (8) |
| JOHNBARRY | Composer and conductor who wrote the scores for 11 James Bond films (4,5) |
| IBERT | 20th century French classical composer who wrote the score for Orson Welles' 1948 film version of Ma |
| ADAM | Adolphe -; French composer who wrote the score for his ballet Giselle in under a month (4) |
| ENO | Brian who wrote the score for "Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" |
| STARWARS | U.S. composer John Williams wrote the scores for the nine main films in this sci-fi film series (4,4) |
| QUAN | Canadian composer who wrote the score for "Relic Hunter" |
| SARA | Singer Bareilles who wrote the score for the musical Waitress |
| EDGE | Number 24 on Rolling Stone's list of the top 100 guitarists, U2's David Evans is better known as The |
| FTSE | Index tracking the share price of the top 100 companies on the London Stock Exchange (4) |
| ELFMAN | Danny _, composer who wrote the scores tor films including Batman and Men In Black (6) |
| YEHUDI | One of the top hundred classical performers of the century, violin maestro ... Menuhin |
