| CRANKO | John, choreographer of Benjamin Britten's ballet The Prince Of The Pagodas (6) |
| CRABBE | A poet and entomologist noted for The Village whose Marsh Flowers became one of Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs (6) |
| JOHNCRANKO | Choreographer of the 1957 ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (4,6) |
| DARCEY | Ms. Bussell, ballerina who created the role of Princess Rose in Prince of the Pagodas (6) |
| BENJAMINBRITTEN | Composer of Curlew River and The Prince of the Pagodas |
| ALBERT | The prince of the "prince in a can" joke |
| EDWARD | Benjamin Britten's first name at birth - dropped in favour of his middle name (6) |
| ASHTON | Founding choreographer of the Royal Ballet whose corpus includes A Tragedy of Fashion, La fille mal gardee, Facade and A Month in the Country (6) |
| TETLEY | Glen, US choreographer of the works The Tempest and Sphinx (6) |
| BUNYAN | Benjamin Britten's operetta Paul ____ is about a giant lumberjack in American folklore |
| FOKINE | Michel ___, Russian-born choreographer of 1909 ballet Les Sylphides (6) |
| IVANOV | Lev, choreographer of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (6) |
| PETIPA | One of the original choreographers of "Don Quixote" |
| GRIMES | Greets prime arrangement of Britten's work (5,6) |
| CELLOS | Instruments played pizzicato in Britten's "Simple Symphony" |
| PEARS | Peter ___, English tenor who created the role of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| TENNYSON | Poet whose The Splendour Falls or "Blow, Bugle, Blow" forms the setting of the nocturne in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (8) |
| AGO | The past form of the pagoda (3) |
| STUPA | Dome-shaped Buddhist monument traditionally housing relics; antecedent of the pagoda (5) |
| EMFORSTER | English novelist (1879-1970) who co-wrote, with Eric Crozier, the libretto for Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd (1951) (1,1,7) |
