| CRABBE | George ---, Aldeburgh poet |
| SONATA | Music out of season at Aldeburgh (6) |
| SNAPE | Suffolk town nr. Aldeburgh |
| BEDLAM | Confirm Aldeburgh about to show chaotic scenes |
| IDEAL | Perfect - bit of seaside, Aldeburgh (5) |
| SUFFOLKPUNCH | One helping to deliver drink for Aldeburgh festival? |
| SNAPEMALTINGS | The concert hall for the Aldeburgh Festival in Suffolk (5,8) |
| BRITTEN | Composer of the operas Peter Grimes, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Death in Venice who founded the Aldeburgh festival with Peter Pears (7) |
| PEARS | Tenor who founded the Aldeburgh Festival with Benjamin Britten (5) |
| FESTIVAL | Event with notable examples hosted at Glastonbury, Aldeburgh or Hay (8) |
| SUFFOLK | Containing parts of the Dedham Vale, county which hosts the Aldeburgh Festival and is the native home of the now rare "chesnut" punch horse (7) |
| SIZEWELL | Coastal village north of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, that became site of a Magnox nuclear power station in 1968 (8) |
| HAMBLING | Maggi, British painter and sculptor noted for Scallop on Aldeburgh beach (8) |
| CROZIER | Eric ?, librettist and theatre director; co-founder of the English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival |
| ERICCROZIER | Librettist; co-founder of the English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival (4,7) |
| EASTSUFFOLK | Local government district established in 2019 whose main towns include Aldeburgh, Felixstowe and Lowestoft |
| PETERPEARS | English tenor (1910-86), co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival (5,5) |
| BENJAMIN | A style of 19th-century overcoat; a spicebush; a youngest or favourite son, in allusion to Genesis; a forename of Baron Britten of Aldeburgh; or, the bunny cousin of Peter Rabbit (8) |
| ORWELL | "1984" author George |
| NOSTALGIA | "A seductive liar": George W. Ball |
