| GLIDE | Portamento in music; a smooth graceful step in dancing the waltz; or, a semivowel in phonetics (5) |
| FLUIDLY | in a smooth, graceful way |
| BALLROOM | Place to dance the waltz or tango, perhaps |
| DANCES | Does the waltz or tango |
| BALLETIC | After formal gathering, quote back in graceful steps (8) |
| SLIDE | Portamento; barrette; part of a trombone; or, a toboggan or the icy track/chute upon which it is run (5) |
| DANCE | Close guidance for a waltz or the like |
| ANENT | Concerning Anne dancing the tango (5) |
| POLKA | Pal OK, dancing the dance (5) |
| LONGU | Sentinel on guard duty has one, unlike a study in phonetics (4,1) |
| PIANO | Instrument used to play Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, Chopin's Minute Waltz or Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, several of which are situated at London St Pancras for public use (5) |
| NASAL | "m" or "n", in phonetics |
| LENIS | Weakly pronounced consonant, in phonetics |
| VELAR | Like some consonants, in phonetics |
| SCHWA | Upside-down "e," in phonetics |
| AGMA | In phonetics, the sound or symbol of the velar nasal consonant, as in the 'ng' of long or the 'n' of sink (4) |
| PAS | A step or a series of steps in dancing |
| CHASSE | Gliding step in dancing, especially ballet, in which the same foot always leads; French, 'to chase' (6) |
| ROMEOAND | Nureyev and Fonteyn were ideal dancing the young lovers in the ballet, ... Juliet (5,3) |
| REDSHOES | Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale of the little girl who couldn't stop dancing, The ... (3,5) |