| CRANKO | John, choreographer of the 1957 ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (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) |
| 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) |
| BENJAMINBRITTEN | Composer of Curlew River and The Prince of the Pagodas |
| ALBERT | The prince of the "prince in a can" joke |
| 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" |
| AGO | The past form of the pagoda (3) |
| STUPA | Dome-shaped Buddhist monument traditionally housing relics; antecedent of the pagoda (5) |
| LIFAR | Serge, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of 1950 ballet Phedre (5) |
| AGNESDEMILLE | Choreographer of Oklahoma! (1943), the daughter and niece of Hollywood directors |
| NIJINSKY | Vaslav ___, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent who died in 1950 |
| BALANCHINE | George ___, choreographer of classical ballet born in 1904 |
| CHAMBERS | George III's architect who designed the pagoda and orangery at Kew Gardens for Princess Augusta and the Royal Academy's first purpose-built home, Somerset House (8) |
| BUSBYBERKELEY | Director/choreographer of "Gold Diggers of 1935" |
| LYNNE | Gillian _, the original choreographer of Cats (5) |
| FAREAST | Site of many pagodas |
