| REMIX | New musical version of a song (5) |
| HENSON | Taraji P. ___ (she plays Shug Avery in the new musical version of "The Color Purple," which premiered on Christmas Day) |
| OPRAH | Best Supporting Actress nominee for 1985's original "The Color Purple" (who's also the co-producer of the new musical version) |
| WAYNE | Jeff ---, composer of the TV-am theme tune as well as a musical version of The War Of The Worlds (5) |
| INTHE | Musical version of some-one rocking the boat? (4,2,3,4) |
| RADIO | ___ edit (cleaned-up version of a song) |
| FOREVERAUTUMN | Song, based on a melody that was written as a jingle for a Lego commercial, sung by Justin Hayward on the album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds |
| HENRY | US composer of 1917 piano piece The Tides of Manaunaun who authored 1930 book New Musical Resources (5,6) |
| DOCTOR | Central character in a series of books by Hugh Lofting, played notably by Rex Harrison in a 1967 film, and by Eddie Murphy in 1998-2001; a musical version of the story is at Blackpool Winter Gardens t |
| DOLITTLE | Central character in a series of books by Hugh Lofting, played notably by Rex Harrison in a 1967 film, and by Eddie Murphy in 1998-2001; a musical version of the story is at Blackpool Winter Gardens t |
| ENEMY | Sounds like rival to New Musical Express in short? (5) |
| SEGNO | Goes wrong incorporating new musical notation (5) |
| BUGLE | Blunder dropping new musical instrument (5) |
| NIECE | Female relative has new musical extract without piano (5) |
| KISSMEKATE | Cole Porter show about the production of a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew |
| RONDO | Staff getting over adopting new musical movement |
| SETTING | Musical version of song |
| OHFELLOW | Shak. play that's an up-beat musical version of one of his other plays? |
| RICHARDBURTON | Actor who narrated Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds (7,6) |
| CASBAH | 1948 musical version of 'Algiers' |
