| RADU | Mr. Lupu, Romanian pianist who won the 1969 Leeds International Piano competition (4) |
| ERICLU | Winner of this year's Leeds International Piano Competition (4,2) |
| MYERS | Tokio, British pianist who won the 11th series of Britain's Got Talent in 2017 (5) |
| ENESCU | Legendary Romanian pianist and composer, George, d. in Paris, 1955 (6) |
| PIANIST | Radu Lupu was a noted Romanian one (7) |
| LUPU | Radu ___, winner of the 1969 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (4) |
| LULU | Scottish singer who won the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (4) |
| ALSOP | Marin who conducted the final round of the quadrennial Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (June, 2025) |
| EMANUELAX | Winner of the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition |
| LEEDS | University city in West Yorkshire that hosts an international piano competition (5) |
| ANNJONES | British tennis player who won the 1969 Wimbledon women's singles title (3,5) |
| OSTERMEYER | Micheline ___, French concert pianist who won gold medals in the shot put and discus and a bronze medal in the high jump at the 1948 Olympics (10) |
| VANCLIBURN | Winner of the first International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, 1958 |
| WARSAW | Polish city home to the International Chapin Piano Competition |
| OSCARPETERSON | Canadian jazz pianist who won eight Grammys (3 to 8) |
| ILO | U.N. agcy. that won the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize |
| HIGHLANDWEDDING | Horse that won the 1969 Grand National (8,7) |
| COREA | Pianist who won two posthumous Grammys in 2021 |
| VAN | Cliburn with a piano competition named after him |
| AMATEUR | Like the entrants in many piano competitions |
