| MUSICALDIRECTOR | Orchestra conductor in theatre is moralistic and crude, unfortunately (7,8) |
| PURITAN | Joke about lovely meter maid is moralistic (7) |
| AESOP | His fables are moralistic and famous (5) |
| PRIGGISH | Moralistic and stubborn about restricted movie rating (8) |
| ARTUROTOSCANINI | Conductor in action, our star waving around (6,9) |
| DOSSIER | Brief comeback in theatre is so disastrous |
| STONEAGE | Individual in theatre is prehistoric (5-3) |
| BROW | Second line of seats in theatre is at top of hill (4) |
| SINCERE | Seeing that last pair in theatre is true |
| HEATRESISTANT | In theatres is tantalising, like Fry's lady? |
| SISTER | Relative in theatres is terrific! (6) |
| LADETTE | A word for a boisterous and crude young woman, thought to have been coined in FHM magazine in 1994 |
| DRAWIN | Get darker and crude, engaged in row |
| ERNEST | Ansermet, founder of L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in 1918 and principal conductor in 1967 (6) |
| MAESTRO | Famous conductor in West, possibly, initially taking Ravel in thus |
| SHANTIES | Sailor's songs and crude sheds (8) |
| BUSHCRAFT | Companion returning by vehicle and crude boat shows survival skills |
| BURRAWANG | Australian nut tree, primitive and crude, with fringe around |
| PRANCE | Empty power addiction and crude swagger |
| BRAWL | Half blue and crude inside a noisy squabble |
