| TOSCANINI | Longtime music director of La Scala and the New York Philharmonic |
| MILAN | City home to La Scala and the San Siro (5) |
| OZAWA | Conductor Seiji ___, longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra |
| SEIJIOZAWA | Longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra who died in February, 2024 |
| ARTUROTOSCANINI | Italian conductor who was musical director of La Scala, Milan, and of the NBC symphony Orchestra in New York |
| MAHLER | Composer Gustav who was Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in the early 1900s |
| GEFFEN | David ____ Hall, concert venue in New York that is home of the New York Philharmonic (6) |
| MEHTA | 1980s director of the New York Philharmonic |
| LINCOLNCENTER | Home of the New York Philharmonic |
| HUSBAND | Partner hot on the New York Philharmonic, for example |
| ALEC | "The New York Philharmonic This Week" host Baldwin |
| ZUBINMEHTA | Indian-born conductor who led the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1991: 2 wds. |
| BETH | Top 10 Kiss hit with backing by the New York Philharmonic |
| LEONARD | Bernstein who conducted the New York Philharmonic |
| NHL | Organization for the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders: Abbr. |
| LOMBARDY | Containing Lake Como, region of northern Italy between the Alps and the Po, site of La Scala opera house in its capital Milan (8) |
| MSG | Which famous venue is home to the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers? (1,1,1) |
| ARTURO | He became New York Philharmonic music director 30 years before Leonard |
| JAAP | New York Philharmonic music director ___ van Zweden |
| RENOIR | Jean ---, influential French director of La grande illusion and La règle du jeu |
