| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| RHAPSODY | Free-form musical composition in one movement, typically emotional in character, from Greek 'a reciter of epic poetry' (8) |
| STILLWATERS | Ones that run deep, for the star of the Sitwell generation (5,6) |
| BUSSELL | Former dancer with The Royal Ballet who became a principal dancer at the age of 20, Darcey _ (7) |
| ASHTON | Originally inspired by Anna Pavlova, the founding choreographer of the Royal Ballet who wrote numerous parts for Margot Fonteyn including Cinderella (6) |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| FREDERICKASHTON | British choreographer born in 1904 who became director of the Royal Ballet (9,6) |
| DEVALOIS | Edris Stannus, the co-founder of the Royal Ballet, took which French royal surname? (2,6) |
| DOWELL | British ballet dancer and former Director of the Royal Ballet, Anthony |
| MAHLER | Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s |
| ASHKENAZY | Vladimir ?, Russia-born Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra from 1987-94 (9) |
| LIFAR | Serge ___, Director of the Paris Opera Ballet who choreographed 1950 work Phedre (5) |
| MEHTA | Maestro Zubin who became the music director of the L.A. Philharmonic at age twenty-six |
| FONTEYN | Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias, prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet (7) |
| JESTER | Word for a minstrel or reciter of romances; a professional buffoon, clown or court fool; a jeerer, joker or mocker; or, one who generally acts with folly and plays the tomfool (6) |
| KUBELIK | Rafael ___, Czech-born conductor and composer who was music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1979 |
| SIMONRATTLE | British conductor who became music director of the London Symphony Orchestra in 2017 (5,6) |
| TOSCANINI | Arturo -, Italian conductor, who was music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (9) |
| RATTLE | Sir Simon, Liverpudlian conductor who is the music director of the London Symphony Orchestra (6) |
| SEIJIOZAWA | Longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who died in February, 2024 |
