| IVANOV | Lev, choreographer of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (6) |
| TWENTY | Harmonised within limits of Tchaikovsky's score |
| BMINOR | Key of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" |
| GMINOR | Key of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 1 (2 wds.) |
| CRANKO | John, choreographer of the 1957 ballet The Prince of the Pagodas (6) |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| 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) |
| FOKINE | Michel, Russian born choreographer of the 1909 ballet Les Sylphides (6) |
| SUITE | Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker ___" |
| CLARA | Girl in Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" |
| ANGLAIS | Paired with "cor", one of the woodwinds forming part of the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's score for the Christmas ballet The Nutcracker that, despite its name, is neither English nor a horn (7) |
| PETIPA | One of the original choreographers of "Don Quixote" |
| EMINOR | Key of Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony |
| LITTLERUSSIAN | Nickname of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 2 (6,7) |
| SAFETY | Peter Tchaikovsky's cleared out as a condition of 18 (6) |
| AURORA | Princess in Tchaikovsky's ballet 'The Sleeping Beauty' (6) |
| NUTCRACKERSUITE | For a treat to screen on Hallowe'en, isn't Tchaikovsky's the apt one to be seen ? (10,5) |
| EUGENONEGIN | 1958 Soviet film version of Tchaikovsky's opera based on Pushkin's novel (5,6) |
| CYMBALS | Percussion instrument heard at the end of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4 |
