| STAINER | PAINTER AND COMPOSER OF ORATORIOS |
| CARISSIMI | Giacomo ___, Italian early Baroque composer, noted as one of the first composers of oratorios, such as Jephte |
| ELGRECO | Painter and composer overlooking a city circle (2,5) |
| COLERIDGETAYLOR | Samuel ___, British composer best known for his trilogy of oratorios Song of Hiawatha |
| ELGAR | Edward, composer of oratorio The Dream of Gerontius (5) |
| SOPRANO | Singer very quietly controlled first of oratorios (7) |
| ORFF | Carl ___, German composer of oratorio Carmina Burana (4) |
| BRUCH | Max -, German composer of oratorio Arminius born in 1838 |
| GEORGEFREDERICKHANDEL | Composer of the oratorios Saul and Israel in Egypt |
| HANDEL | Composer of Water Music and many oratorios |
| JOSEPH | and 28dn, Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons |
| HAYDN | see 2dn, Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons |
| JOSEPHHAYDN | Austrian composer who wrote the oratorios The Creation and The Seasons |
| SUNG | Like operas and oratorios |
| STRINGENDO | Speeding up sequence before finish and start of oratorio (10) |
| LENTO | Piece of slow music for period before Easter – opening of oratorio |
| CASTRATO | Old-time singer and performers meeting retired sailor at end of oratorio (8) |
| AZIONESACRA | First and last characters caught in arias one revised for sort of oratorio (6,5) |
| AGITATO | A fool at start of oratorio is restless and wild musically (7) |
| CAMEO | Small part turned up at start of oratorio |
