| STRINGQUARTET | Schubert composed one called Death and the Maiden (6,7) |
| BUTCHERS | Here you'll find some joints Schubert composed |
| EASEFUL | What Keats called Death to make us feel a difference (7) |
| RACHEL | With 6-Down, comedian with a one-woman musical called "Death, Let Me Do My Show" |
| DORFMAN | Ariel, author of the play Death and the Maiden (7) |
| ARIEL | Author of the play Death And The Maiden (5) |
| FIRSTOFFENDER | Pine trees swell closer for the maiden prisoner (5,8) |
| MISER | "Death and the ___" (Bosch painting in the National Gallery of Art) |
| RUDKIN | David ___, playwright whose works include Afore Night Come, The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Lig |
| WHITENOISE | Don DeLillo novel whose original dust jacket touted it as "a brilliant story about death and the fear of death . . . a comedy, of course" |
| PLEMONS | Jesse _, star of TV series Love & Death and The Power of the Dog (7) |
| MAIDEN | Dorfman's "Death and the ______" |
| CREASEY | John -, author of novels Go Away Death and The Executioners (7) |
| DURER | "Knight, Death and the Devil" engraver |
| RHAPSODY | Gershwin composed one involving harps, oddly uneven (8) |
| COLUMNIST | Contributor to newspaper, totally lacking in energy, composed one Times clue |
| TRAVELLER | Tell raver to be composed, one on a trip (9) |
| SERENER | ... for there to be more composed, one of two playing 18A heard (7) |
| ORATORIO | Handel composed one speech almost all about gold (8) |
| IMPLEMENTATION | Rascal composed one lament - it shows application (14) |
