| LIGETI | Gyorgy ---, Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music (6) |
| ROREM | Ned, U.S. composer of contemporary classical music, born in 1923 (5) |
| MODERN | Style of contemporary dance pioneered by Isadora Duncan (6) |
| CANCAN | Is able to include article on head of contemporary dance (6) |
| ASTRAY | Portion of contemporary art sale's returns missing (6) |
| MOZART | Wolfgang Amadeus - - -, prolific and influential Austrian composer of the Classical era (6) |
| MAHLER | Austrian composer of the Resurrection Symphony, etc. (6,6) |
| GUSTAV | Austrian composer of the Resurrection Symphony, etc. (6,6) |
| PRAGUE | Which city in Europe hosted a 2024 international festival of contemporary circus and theatre? (6) |
| ETUDES | French for word for "studies" used as a name for works by Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy and Gyorgy Ligeti, among others (6) |
| GRUBER | H K, Austrian composer of the opera Gloria von Jaxtberg (6) |
| SANDOR | Pianist Gyorgy |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| POPSONG | Piece of contemporary music (3,4) |
| CAGE | Pen for writer of contemporary music (4) |
| NONO | Luigi, composer whose works include Omaggio a Gyorgy Kurtag (4) |
| JOSEPHHAYDN | Prominent Austrian composer of the Classical period (6,5) |
| ART | Museum of Contemporary ___, Los Angeles |
| ADORATION | Love of contemporary speech? (9) |
| ACHILDOFOURTIME | Composition of contemporary youth (1,5,2,3,4) |
