| VIVALDI | Composer whose violin concerto Autumn forming part of The Four Seasons depicts the revelry at a harvest festival followed by a dawn hunt pursuing a fleeting beast (7) |
| MIT | Harv. neighbor |
| RAH | Cry of joy leads to revelry at hostelry (3) |
| RIDOTTO | Daughter involved in wild revelry at dance party |
| DRAM | A tipple for mother about the start of the revelry (4) |
| UTAH | State that's the northwestern part of the Four Corners |
| CARNAL | Four slip out from the revelry, being lustful (6) |
| CARNIVAL | The man is shielding Ivan, who got drunk in the revelry (8) |
| OFFSPRING | Children not keen on first part of The Four Seasons |
| OISTRAKH | David ___, violinist who was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Shostakovich's violin concertos and the violin concerto by Khachaturian |
| ONCEUPONATIMEIN | Phrase that, when preceded by the first parts of the four theme entries, creates the name of the entertainment in the parenthesis |
| ELGAR | Forming the basis of a long friendship, who was helped with technical details by the conductor W.H. Reed when he was commissioned by the violinist Fritz Kreisler to write Violin Concerto (1910)? (5) |
| SUMMER | A time of blossoming or happiness; a poetic word for a year; one of the four seasons; or, from the Old French meaning "packhorse", a large beam or lintel (6) |
| BOTTICELLI | Nickname of the Italian Renaissance artist whose painting The Birth of Venus depicts the Roman goddess of love and beauty arriving on land in a giant scallop shell (10) |
| SEASONS | The Four -; set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, recomposed in a contemporary style by Max Richter (7) |
| ANTONIOVIVALDI | Italian Baroque composer noted for his group of violin concertos The Four Seasons (7,7) |
| SPRING | The one of the four seasons that combines with 'wood' in the name of a Blue Mountains town (6) |
| ALBANBERG | Austrian composer whose 1935 violin concerto is dedicated 'in memory of an angel', to Manon Gropius, daughter of Mahler's widow by her second husband |
| COLDSTREAM | Outer Melbourne locality; English Guards regiment; description of a river in the chilliest of the four seasons (10) |
| SHIVER | A tremble in response to cold, such as that portrayed in the "Winter" concerto of The Four Seasons (6) |
