| PEERGYNT | Marie leaves prayer-meeting confused about Grieg's incidental music (4,4) |
| ENERGY | Primate leaves prayer meeting with enthusiasm (6) |
| REENTRY | Magpie has to leave prayer meeting to get back in again (2-5) |
| SERVICES | Star had 24 hour armed forces prayer meetings. (6,8) |
| THERUINS | Incidental music: has ten, it would seem (3,5,2,6) |
| OFATHENS | Incidental music: has ten, it would seem (3,5,2,6) |
| SIBELIUS | Jean, Finnish composer who wrote incidental music to Shakespeare's play The Tempest (8) |
| PETERPAN | Safe to criticise Bernstein incidental music (5,3) |
| OLORD | Prayer meeting opener |
| AMEN | Prayer meeting word |
| AMENS | Prayer meeting shouts |
| ERASER | Emptying out of prayer meetings, this will be needed for classy clean-up (6) |
| PIGMY | No Easterner at the prayer meetings, just a small tribesman (5) |
| EMEERS | Prayer meetings dismiss partying by Arab rulers (6) |
| SUNDAY | Star had 24 hour armed forces prayer meetings. (6,8) |
| BASSOON | One of the woodwinds used to perform Edvard Grieg's Morning Mood and In the Hall of the Mountain King as part of the incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt (7) |
| KINGLEAR | Shakespeare play for which 6 across, 3 down wrote incidental music (4,4) |
| GRIEG | Edvard ___, Norwegian composer of the incidental music for Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (5) |
| EDVARD | Norwegian composer whose works include the incidental music for Peer Gynt |
| ADJUNCT | Incidental music producer, foreign one, taking part in performance |
