| PETIPA | Marius -; choreographer and danseur who collaborated with Tchaikovsky on Sleeping Beauty (6) |
| ASHTON | Choreographer and danseur with a repertoire of around 30 ballets including Facade, A Wedding Bouquet, Birthday Offering and A Month in the Country (6) |
| MALEFICENT | 2014 Disney film based on Sleeping Beauty (10) |
| AUDREY | Corrie lady who overdosed on sleeping pills (6) |
| TSETSE | What African fly passes on sleeping sickness? (6) |
| GORING | Marius ?, actor who played Julian Craster in 1948 film drama The Red Shoes (6) |
| TRESOR | Marius ...... , 1971-83 France defender; 1978 and 1982 World Cup player (6) |
| ILLMET | 1957 Powell and Pressburger film starring Dirk Bogarde and Marius Goring (3,3) |
| PEEKIN | Check on sleeping kids, perhaps |
| ARLENE | Choreographer and Dame who set an age-record on I'm A Celebrity... (6,8) |
| THERED | 1948 film by Powell and Pressburger starring Marius Goring (3,3) |
| DANCER | Danseur |
| BALLET | Danseur's forte |
| ALSTON | Richard ___, choreographer and Rambert Dance Company artistic director from 1986-92 (6) |
| LIONEL | Late dancer, choreographer and Give Us A Clue player (6,5) |
| FOKINE | Michel, Russian choreographer and ballet dancer born in 1880 (6) |
| TRISHA | ___ Brown, U.S. choreographer and dancer (6) |
| DUNHAM | Dancer, choreographer and anthropologist Katherine often called the "matriarch of Black dance" |
| NEPENTHE | North-eastern writer with article on sleeping potion (8) |
| ROBERTS | Corrie lady who overdosed on sleeping pills (7) |
