| BRUBECK | Dave -, jazz pianist best known for Take Five (7) |
| AHA | Norwegian band best known for Take On Me: Hyph. |
| FEFEDOBSON | Rock star known for "Take Me Away" and "Ghost" |
| NINASIMONE | American jazz singer and pianist, best known for My Baby Just Cares For Me (4,6) |
| REINECKE | Carl ___, German composer, conductor and pianist best known for his flute sonata Undine |
| GROFE | Ferde ___, American composer, arranger and pianist best known for his Grand Canyon Suite |
| BIZET | Georges ---, French Romantic composer and pianist best known for the 1875 opera Carmen (5) |
| KUHLAU | German-born Danish composer and concert pianist, best known for the incidental music Elverhoj (6) |
| SAINTSAENS | French composer, organist, conductor and pianist best known for The Carnival of the Animals (5-5) |
| RESTART | Take five from the front off Dart and continue after a break (7) |
| OMITTED | Possibly time to take five hundred left out (7) |
| MEASURE | Five beats, in "Take Five" |
| ALTOSAX | Woodwind heard in "Take Five" |
| PROVOST | College head to take five in quiet resting-place |
| PROVISO | Condition is poor when ordered to take five |
| ARRESTS | Nabs a ringleader then takes five (7) |
| VEHICLE | People carrier takes five plus one in revolutionary back ledge with middle removed (7) |
| RESTSUP | Takes five (2 wds.) |
| DAVEBRUBECK | "Take Five" jazz pianist who received a 2009 Kennedy Center Honor: 2 wds. |
| HOVEL | Take five for tea, say, from hotel to wretched dwelling |
