| TAVERNER | John --------, 16th-century English composer: one who frequented an inn of old (8) |
| OSTLERS | Stablemen at inns of old (7) |
| SHEBEEN | One girl has frequented an illegal drinking den... (7) |
| LINCOLNS | - Inn; one of the Inns of Court in London (8) |
| HONEGGER | French composer, one of Les Six, who wrote Pacific 231 (8) |
| MANCIPLE | Officer who buys provisions for a college or Inns of Court (8) |
| ALBINONI | Italian composer, one in old England heading for Italy (8) |
| CHAMBERS | Rooms used by barristers, especially in the Inns of Court (8) |
| EYEGLASS | I listened to composer - one that may alter one's view |
| WILLIAMS | Film composer one morning seen amongst leaves (8) |
| LIBELLEE | Respondent in the Inns of Court |
| BIRDCAGE | Composers, one heard, providing arrangement of bars for singer |
| KNOX | John, 16th-century theologian who established the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1560 (4) |
| BENCHER | One on form as a senior member of an inn of court (7) |
| STAPLE | ____ Inn, in High Holborn, is London’s only surviving Elizabethan half-timbered building, on the site of a former wool trade centre and later an Inn of Chancery |
| CALVIN | John ---, 16th-Century French leader of the Protestant Reformation in France and Switzerland (6) |
| ABSTAINER | A second-class composer, one who avoids the hard stuff |
| CRYSTALLISATION | Uproar's over English composer, one into changing - that's becoming clear |
| TALLIS | 16th-century English composer of The Lamentations of Jeremiah (6) |
| BRIAN | English composer, one advanced in intellect |