| LUPU | Radu, winner of the 1969 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (4) |
| RADU | ___ Lupu, Romanian pianist who won the 1969 Leeds International Piano Competition (4) |
| LULU | Scottish winner of the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest (4) |
| EASY | What completes the title of the 1969 Peter Fonda film, ___ Rider? (4) |
| ECHO | Some pianoforte chords reverberate (4) |
| BURN | English title of the 1969 action film starring Marlon Brando as Sir William Walker (4) |
| SHEA | Site of the 1969 World Series victory |
| AGEE | Tommie of the 1969 Miracle Mets |
| BECKETT | What was the surname of Samuel, the Irish playwright and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature? (7) |
| GELLMANN | Murray --, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics (4-4) |
| TONYBOOK | 1956-64 Bath City, 1964-66 Plymouth Argyle and 1966-74 Man City defender; winner of the 1969 FA Cup and 1970 European Cup Winners' Cup finals (4,4) |
| LAVER | Rod ___, winner of the 1969 Wimbledon singles tennis championship (5) |
| ERICLU | Winner of this year's Leeds International Piano Competition (4,2) |
| PECKINPAH | Surname of the director of the 1969 film, The Wild Bunch |
| MARIOPUZO | Author of the 1969 crime novel The Godfather (5,4) |
| PIANIST | Radu Lupu was a noted Romanian one (7) |
| CLAVIER | Another term for the pianoforte (7) |
| UTOPIAN | Auto-pianoforte embodies the sublime (7) |
| OFFKEY | In essence pianoforte is, to be extremely frank, echoey and out-of-tune |
| MAYAANGELOU | American author of the 1969 autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (4,7) |
