| LULLABY | French composer penning sailor's cradle-song (7) |
| GRIMACE | Unhappy expression from Scottish composer penning account (7) |
| TALLIES | Composer penning key scores |
| HUSHABY | Married man, losing heart, has oddly substituted cradle song |
| WEBBROWSER | German composer penning British lines for Opera, perhaps (3,7) |
| HOLDFAST | Stop composer penning endings to round off sonata (4,4) |
| JUDASMACCABEUS | Oratorio featuring traitor: English composer penning one with us (5,9) |
| BACHELORS | Composer's penning backing part for unmarried men |
| BRAHMS | Composer of a cradle song |
| BERCEUSE | From the French for "to rock", a cradle-song, hushaby or lullaby with which to gently sway a baby to sleep; or, a musical composition, such as Chopin's famous Op 57 soother, suggestive of such a baloo |
| ROCK | Sort of music suitable for a cradle-song? (4) |
| SCANDALMONGER | Cradle-song man (anag.) (13) |
| LULLY | Scorer omitting alto and bass from cradle-song |
| LULL | Word, for "soothe to sleep or quiescence", from which a name for a cradle song or hushaby derives (4) |
| SWINGMUSIC | Cradle-songs or big band jazz? (5-5) |
| LULLABIES | Cradle songs (9) |
| BERCEAU | Word, from French, for a cradle or covered walk (7) |
| RICOTTA | Woman gets to cradle cheese (7) |
| BORACIC | Rocking old cradle for starters, a crib broke (7) |
| TREETOP | Cradle locale of song |
