| CONTEMPORANEOUS | Ravel tune No, a composer of the same period (15) |
| FLAT | Out of tune - no longer sparkling (4) |
| MELODRAMA | Play tune no end, hit by Adele originally (9) |
| COEVAL | Of the same period - alcove (anag) (6) |
| CONTEMPORARY | Living in the same period of time (12) |
| ODEONMELANCHOLY | Work of Keats? No, a Cholmondeley construction (3,2,10) |
| EATONESHEARTOUT | English solicitor imports ash tree? No, a gnarled pine |
| ORATOR | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music (6) |
| WRITER | Word for a person who paints lettering for signs; a novelist or journalist; a professional clerk or scribe; or, a composer of music |
| CHOPIN | Name, suggestive of a sudden sharp cut, of a composer of mazurkas, nocturnes, polonaises, preludes and two piano concertos (6) |
| PUCCINI | Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era (7) |
| RAGTIME | Scott Joplin was known as a composer of this style of music |
| PARADES | Padre's a composer of marches (7) |
| CODEINE | It acts as a composer of morse in England's capital |
| CHANGEONESTUNE | Alter attitude, like a composer of variations? |
| ISOBAR | Rob is a composer of weather map rule |
| TOSTI | To sit around with a composer of ballads (5) |
| SOUSA | Trifles with a composer of marches (5) |
| PSALMIST | A composer of devotional songs or hymns (8) |
| HAYDN | A composer of handy compositions (5) |
