| HORSEHAIR | Heroin at the musical (9) |
| PSYCHOUT | Play emotional games with foreign spy caught with heroin at the end of 4 across (5,3) |
| TRIPOUT | Reduce the power of solicitor injected with heroin at home (4,3) |
| HASH | Possesses heroin at first and pot (4) |
| INHOCK | Owing money, one criminal returns to smuggle heroin at Cambodia (2,4) |
| KEYBOARDS | Parts of some of the musical instruments in the chordophone family (9) |
| RHAPSODIC | The chord is a piano variation in the musical (9) |
| BERNSTEIN | Leonard, U.S. conductor and composer who wrote the music for the musical West Side Story (9) |
| PYGMALION | George Bernard Shaw play, the basis for the musical My Fair Lady (9) |
| BALTIMORE | City which is the setting for the musical 'Hairspray' (9) |
| BOYFRIEND | Date of the musical (9) |
| TRADITION | Opening song of the musical Fiddler On The Roof |
| METRONOME | Sound reporter of the Musical Times? (9) |
| HAIRPIECE | A switch for the musical item (9) |
| TROMBONES | Song from the musical, The Music Man, Seventy-Six ___ |
| CROTCHETY | Grumpy when the musical note yoyos initially (9) |
| JACKKELLY | Leader of the newsboys in the musical "Newsies" |
| ASTRANGER | In the musical Kismet, the Caliph asks, 'Take my hand, I'm ... in Paradise' (1,8) |
| ARGENTINA | Song from the musical Evita, "Don't Cry for Me ..." (9) |
| RIGHTEOUS | The ___ Brothers were the musical duo Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield |