| FINALE | Female composed a line for last part (6) |
| ANIDEALHUSBAND | Composed a line and had American musicians play (2,5,7) |
| RETICELLA | Lines for last two characters in mostly silent start of Arsenic and Old Lace |
| GREETS | Welcomes environmentalists with time for last part of action (6) |
| HERALD | Large group inserting a line for news announcer (6) |
| ISOBAR | Is nothing except a line for the Met man (6) |
| MOPEDS | Doctor pedals, ignoring a line for vehicles (6) |
| CLERIC | Like secretary's work, dropping a line for father? |
| METEOR | What creates a line for the shower? |
| OROMEO | Start of a line for Juliet |
| SKIRTS | Minis and A-lines, for two |
| STANZA | On the end of her last letter, I hear Ellie from Laneast composed a few lines of poetry (6) |
| MOZART | "Wunderkind" who composed a minuet at the age of five and a further 600 opuses during his remaining 30 years of life, including Il Seraglio for "musical king" Joseph II, who famously said the opera ha |
| COWARD | Playwright who composed a song about mad dogs and Englishmen rather wittily, wrote The Vortex somewhat grittily and famously quipped that a Martini's perfection is only a wave away, towards the direct |
| BRAHMS | Johannes -; protege of Robert Schumann who composed A German Requiem (6) |
| ANTHEM | The man composed a patriotic song (6) |
| SERENE | Composed a serenade with notes missing (6) |
| CHOPIN | He composed a feature about work (6) |
| PHRASE | Sherpa composed a few words |
| SLOGAN | Head of state composed a long or short political statement |
