| FELA | Nigerian musician, a pioneer of Afrobeat (4,4) |
| KUTI | Nigerian musician, a pioneer of Afrobeat (4,4) |
| FELAKUTI | Nigerian musician born in 1938 considered a pioneer of Afrobeat (4,4) |
| MINSTREL | Medieval musician a short time on street about to meet first of lovers (8) |
| VIRTUOSO | Has the skilled musician a strange virus too? |
| ARRANGER | Musician, a rapper originally, with Glasgow player? |
| ENSEMBLE | Group of musicians, a co-ordinated outfit (8) |
| MONDRIAN | Piet _ (1872-1944), Dutch painter, a pioneer of abstract art (8) |
| MAXERNST | German artist who was a pioneer of Surrealism and the Dada movement (3,5) |
| LAGOS | Burial place of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti |
| TRIO | Group of three musicians; a set of three aces, kings, queens etc in piquet; or, a cocktail such as an espresso Martini mixed with a cream liqueur (4) |
| PIPER | As a musician, a good cake decorator? (5) |
| ADE | Nigerian musician King Sunny |
| OKRI | Nigerian musician, (4) |
| FIDDLER | Musician, a cheat |
| TEAMPLAYER | Side with musician, a cooperative person (4,6) |
| HARMONICAPLAYER | Musician, a rhymer, oddly holding Al Pacino back (9,6) |
| BEETHOVEN | Live TV: he is playing with one musician a€¦ (9) |
| STING | This musician's a fraud (5) |
| ORCHESTRA | Group of musicians -- a chorister's lost without one (9) |