| ASHTON | Founding choreographer of the Royal Ballet whose corpus includes A Tragedy of Fashion, La fille mal gardee, Facade and A Month in the Country (6) |
| CRANKO | John, choreographer of the 1957 ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (6) |
| JOHNCRANKO | Choreographer of the 1957 ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (4,6) |
| DEVALOIS | Edris Stannus, the co-founder of the Royal Ballet, took which French royal surname? (2,6) |
| LAMBERT | Founder Music Director of the Royal Ballet who was a reciter in the Sitwell-Walton Facade collaboration (7) |
| TETLEY | Glen, US choreographer of the works The Tempest and Sphinx (6) |
| FOKINE | Michel, Russian born choreographer of the 1909 ballet Les Sylphides (6) |
| GAETANODONIZETTI | Italian operatic composer whose works include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Fille du regiment |
| FREDERICKASHTON | British choreographer born in 1904 who became director of the Royal Ballet (9,6) |
| THENUTCRACKER | 1892 ballet whose music - by Tchaikovsky - was for many years more popular than the ballet (3,10) |
| GFLAT | Major key of Debussy's "La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin" |
| HORTENSIUS | A steward in Donizetti's opera La fille du regiment |
| DOWELL | British ballet dancer and former Director of the Royal Ballet, Anthony |
| FONTEYN | Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias, prima ballerina assoluta of the Royal Ballet (7) |
| TRUE | 1983 album by Spandau Ballet whose title track spent four weeks at number one in the UK Singles Chart |
| MADAME | 1900 one-act play by David Belasco subtitled A Tragedy of Japan (6,9) |
| BUTTERFLY | 1900 one act play by David Belasco subtitled A Tragedy of Japan (9) |
| TENOR | Tonio, in "La Fille du Regiment," for one |
| NEE | "La Fille ___ Sans MAA¨re" (Dada work) |
| DARCEY | Retired principal dancer of The Royal Ballet, _ Bussell (6) |
