| TAUBER | Richard, Linz-born operatic tenor, composer and conductor who took British citizenship in 1940 (6) |
| SOLTI | Sir Georg, Budapest-born conductor who took British nationality in 1972 (5) |
| RICHARD | Austrian-born tenor, composer of Old Chelsea (7,6) |
| RUSEDSKI | Greg ___, Canadian-born tennis player who adopted British citizenship in 1995 |
| BEGUM | Shamima __, woman stripped of British citizenship in 2019 (5) |
| BATCH | Tenor composer's initially group in German (5) |
| MOISTEN | Kenya's Arap took British gun to dampen (7) |
| MAHLER | Austrian composer and conductor who died in 1911 (6) |
| BOULEZ | Pierre -; French classical composer and conductor who led the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1971-75 (6) |
| GUSTAV | _ _ _ _ _ _ Mahler, Austrian Jewish composer and conductor who wrote the Resurrection Symphony (6) |
| CALLAS | Maria ?, New York-born operatic soprano who died in 1977 (6) |
| WATSON | Russell, Salford-born operatic and pop tenor (6) |
| LESLEY | Yorkshire-born operatic soprano who appeared on the first series of Strictly Come Dancing (6, 7) |
| SOPHIA | Robot given Saudi citizenship in 2017 (6) |
| BLISS | Composer and conductor who was knighted in 1950 and appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 1953 in succession to Sir Arnold Bax (5) |
| SARGENT | Malcolm, British composer and conductor who died in 1967 (7) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ---, Italian composer and conductor who worked in Vienna from 1766 (7) |
| JARRE | Maurice ---, French composer and conductor who wrote scores for films including Lawrence Of Arabia and Dr Zhivago (5) |
| PROKOFIEV | Russian composer and conductor who wrote in 1936 (9) |
| ALANSILVESTRI | American composer and conductor who scored music for Back to the Future: 2 wds. |