| MEISTERSINGER | One of the burgher poets and musicians in Germany in the 14th - 16th centuries (13) |
| OPERA | Singers and musicians in dramatic work are in the end with rising river (5) |
| BARDS | Skilled magicians and musicians in D&D |
| BERCHTESGADEN | Resort town in Germany in the Bavarian Alps associated with Adolf Hitler (13) |
| RENAISSANCE | Culture developed in the 14th-16th centuries (11) |
| AZTEC | Civilisation which dominated central Mexico from the 14th-16th centuries (5) |
| RODIN | Celebrated at a current exhibition at the Grand Palais marking the centenary of his death, the founding father of modern sculpture whose works include The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker (5) |
| ORPHEUS | The Greeks of the Classical age venerated him as chief among poets and musicians (7) |
| MINNESINGER | Member of the German medieval school of mainly aristocratic lyric poets and musicians |
| SHOCK | First stout drunk in Germany in the past - that'll come as a bolt out of the blue (5) |
| BIEDERMEIER | A style of furniture derived from French empire style common in Germany in the 19th century (11) |
| FOKKER | Anthony, the 'Flying Dutchman', who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) |
| KAISERSLAUTERN | City in southwest Germany, in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate, that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940s |
| RIESLING | Which grape variety originated in Germany in the early 1400s? (8) |
| TECHNO | Electronic dance music genre for Kraftwerk, which originated in Germany in the early 1980s |
| ERATO | Muse of poets and musicians (5) |
| TRANCEMUSIC | A pop genre developed in Germany in the 1990s |
| GERMANY | Country known as the land of poets and thinkers, where the annual Oktoberfest is observed (7) |
| HOCKEY | Team ball game won at the 2004 Olympics by Australia in the men's event and Germany in the women's event (6) |
| KAISER | Georg ___, German expressionist dramatist whose plays include The Burghers of Calais and From Morn to Midnight |
