| CLASSICAL | Denoting serious art or music in general (9) |
| ICING | Minute music, in general, is a piece of cake (5) |
| PULITZERPRIZE | Award for achievement in journalism, literature or music in America (8,5) |
| RETRO | Clothes or music in the style of the recent past (5) |
| SCHMALTZ | Excessive sentimentality in art or music (8) |
| OPUS | Creative work, eg in writing, art or music (4) |
| NEWWAVE | An avant-garde movement in cinema, art or music (and perhaps even surfing?) (3,4) |
| STUDIO | Place to make art or music |
| CRITIC | Judge of art or music (6) |
| POP | Word before art or music |
| BLUEGRASS | Style of country music or music associated with rhythm about rags broadcast (9) |
| EARNEST | Serious art seen in a new light (7) |
| LEITMOTIF | In literature or music, a recurring theme |
| OPPORTUNE | After work, quiet or music is timely (9) |
| LULLABIES | Blues all I played, or music for rockers? (9) |
| TESTRERUN | Math or music makeup? |
| FORM | A long bench; a hare's bed; one's figure or physique; or, structural unity in art, literature or music (4) |
| THEME | Word for the subject of a discourse; a short exercise or essay; or, a motif in art, literature or music (5) |
| KITSCH | Vulgar or trashy art, literature or music (6) |
| GENRE | The use of green as a category or art, literature or music! (5) |
