| SAINTSAENS | French composer who wrote The Carnival of the Animals suite (5-5) |
| CELLO | In Saint-Saens' The Carnival of the Animals, what instrument represents the swan? (5) |
| SWAN | Bird in Saint-Saens' "The Carnival of the Animals" |
| ERIKSATIE | French composer who wrote the 1913 piano suite Sketches and Exasperations of a Big Wooden Dummy |
| LULLY | Italian-born French composer who wrote the operas Alceste and Armide (5) |
| SAENS | "Carnival of the Animals" composer Camille Saint-___ |
| ADAM | Adolphe -; French composer who wrote the score for his ballet Giselle in under a month (4) |
| SATIE | Erik ___ , French composer, who wrote five pieces he called 'furniture music', d. 1925 (5) |
| DELIBES | Leo _, 19th-century French composer who wrote the Flower Duet (7) |
| HECTORBERLIOZ | French composer who wrote the operas Les Troyens and Benvenuto Cellini |
| OGDEN | 'Carnival of the Animals' poet Nash |
| DEBUSSY | French composer who wrote Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (7) |
| ANIMALS | Work by French composer Saint-Seens, Carnival of the _ (7) |
| ALEXANDRE | ___ Desplat French composer who won the 2018 Oscar for Best Original Score for the film The Shape of Water |
| LEGRAND | Michel ___, French composer who won an Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from The Thomas Crown Affair |
| MYHAT | Song based on the Carnival of Venice; _ _, it Has Three Corners (2,3) |
| MASQUERADES | Anonymous affairs such as the Carnival of Venice |
| AURIC | Georges ---, French composer who was a member of Les Six (5) |
| MARDIGRAS | Pre-Lenten carnival of Roman Catholic origin falling on the day before Valentine's Day in 2024 (5,4) |
| MIRO | "Carnival of Harlequin" surrealist |
