| PEPUSCH | Johann Christoph -, composer who arranged the music for 1728's The Beggar's Opera by John Gay |
| SCORED | Arranged the music and achieved a success (6) |
| OLEY | Johann Christoph -, German organist and composer (4) |
| BEGGARSOPERA | "The ... ...", 1728 ballad-opera by John Gay (7,5) |
| THEBEGGARS | 1728 ballad-opera by John Gay (3,7,5) |
| OPERA | 1728 ballad-opera by John Gay (3,7,5) |
| OILED | I'd employ Leo who arranged the lubrication for me (5) |
| BRECHT | Playwright and poet who adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into The Threepenny Opera with composer Kurt Weill (6) |
| DEODATO | Musician who arranged the theme for "2001" |
| WATTEL | Frenchman who arranged the two events left first (6) |
| ELGIN | Thomas Bruce, diplomat who arranged for some of the sculptures on the Parthenon to be transported to England (5) |
| THEBEGGARSOPERA | Work by John Gay |
| BEGGARS | Musical drama with text by John Gay (7,5) |
| EYESHADOW | Watchdog used by John Gay's Susan? |
| SWIFT | Author of Gulliver's Travels who founded the literary Scriblerus Club with Alexander Pope, John Gay and others that was frequented by Robert Harley (5) |
| JOEDIMAGGIO | Who arranged for six red roses to be put on Marilyn Monroe's grave three times weekly for 20 years? (3,8) |
| FERGUS | Hollyoaks villain who arranged for Trish's daughter to be kidnapped (6,7) |
| COLLINS | Hollyoaks villain who arranged for Trish's daughter to be kidnapped (6,7) |
| DISRAELI | Prime Minister who arranged Britain's purchase of a large shareholding in the - Suez Canal in 1875 (8) |
| NIXON | US president - subject of an opera by John Adams (5) |
