| LATA | Singer known as The Nightingale of Bollywood |
| DARKLING | _ I listen - to a Nightingale of Keats's (8) |
| JIG | The note of the nightingale; a prison or jail; a glass, tankard or Toby of beer; an instrument forming part of a skiffle band; or, a spouted vessel, such as a boat, ewer or pitcher (3) |
| FINCH | Poet who held the title Countess of Winchilsea and wrote A Letter to Daphnis, A Nocturnal Reverie, To the Nightingale and The Owl Describing her Young Ones (5) |
| IGOR | Russian-born US composer of works including the operas The Nightingale (1914) and The Rake's Progress (1951) (4,10) |
| STRAVINSKI | Russian-born US composer of works including the operas The Nightingale (1914) and The Rake's Progress (1951) (4,10) |
| CHAT | Name of a family of Old World songbirds that includes the nightingale (4) |
| LEROSSIGNOL | French name of Igor Stravinsky's opera 'The Nightingale' (2,9) |
| TASMANIA | The Nightingale and The Hunter were filmed in this Australian state (8) |
| PHILOMEL | The nightingale personified (8) |
| MIGRANT | Like the nightingale ovenwintering in Africa (7) |
| ROBIN | Insectivorous territorial songbird related to the nightingale (5) |
| NURSE | Medical professional who takes the Nightingale Pledge |
| BESSIESMITH | US singer known as the 'Empress of the Blues' (c.1894-1937), inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 (6,5) |
| PHILOMELA | The nightingale; maerens ____ sub umbra amissos queritur fetus Geo. 4.511-2 |
| SWEENEY | "___ Among the Nightingales" |
| ELIOT | 'Sweeney Among the Nightingales' poet |
| AMONG | "Sweeney __ the Nightingales": Eliot poem |
| ODETTA | Folk singer known as "The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" |
| JENNYLIND | Singer known as the Swedish Nightingale |
