| ESTELLA | She turned up in the Bolshoi Ballet sessions (7) |
| INA | She turned up in a diamond necklace (3) |
| HOIST | Lift experienced in the Bolshoi stage production(5) |
| INURE | Get used to being in the Bolshoi, Nureyev? (5) |
| ILSA | She turned up at Rick's |
| LATECOMER | Perhaps meet Carol ? she's turned up after all! (9) |
| MIKHAIL | Mr. Baryshnikov (Headlines-making ballet dancer who defected from the Soviet Union while on tour with the Bolshoi in Toronto in 1974) |
| SWANLAKE | Tchaikovsky ballet first performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 (4,4) |
| REDSTAR | Actor from the Bolshoi appearing as Mars? (3,4) |
| PLISETSKAYA | Maya, Russia-born ballerina who joined the Bolshoi Ballet as a principal in 1943 (11) |
| MOSCOW | Home of the Bolshoi Ballet (6) |
| CLOTHES | The colt she turned out provides coverings (7) |
| ACTAEON | This hunter, a grandson of Cadmus, saw Diana bathing, which meant she turned him into a stag that was then killed by his dogs. In The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 2, scene 1), Pistol says, "Like Sir __ |
| OPERA | Type of drama set to music at the Palais Garnier in Paris, La Scala in Milan or the Bolshoi in Moscow, for example (5) |
| KIROV | Russian musical company, main rival to the Bolshoi in opera and ballet (5) |
| UNITARD | Bolshoi wear |
| MAYA | Bolshoi ballet's prima ballerina assoluta- the role of Carmen was created for her, ___ Plisetskaya |
| EMIT | Utter brilliance from Bolshoi Ballet, all concluding (4) |
| BALLETPARKING | Sign for tourists visiting the Bolshoi? |
| TUTUIRONS | Small appliances used by the Bolshoi costume department? |
