| DAVIES | Sir Peter Maxwell -; former Master of the Queen's Music who composed Eight Songs for a Mad King and Taverner (6) |
| WEIR | Composer of A Night at the Chinese Opera who was appointed Master of The Queen's Music in succession to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in 2014 (4) |
| BLISS | Sir Arthur _; British composer and former Master of the Queen's Music (5) |
| PATRON | From the Latin meaning "father", a guardian saint; a protector or benefactor; or, the former master of a freedman in ancient Rome (6) |
| MAXWELLDAVIES | Sir Peter ____ was made Master of the Queen's Music in 2004 |
| PETER | English composer and conductor appointed Master of the Queen's Music in 2004 (5,7,6) |
| PETERMAXWELL | British composer who was Master of the Queen's Music from 2004-14 (5,7,6) |
| DENNING | Lord _, former Master of the Rolls (7) |
| BROWN | George Mackay -; Orcadian author whose novel Magnus was adapted into a chamber opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (5) |
| TAVERNER | Composer and polyphonic master whose life is the subject of an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies (8) |
| SANDY | Did a former master golfer go into a bunker by the end? (5) |
| EIGHTSONGS | 1969 music-theatre piece by Peter Maxwell Davies and Randolph Stow (5,5,3,1,3,4) |
| REIMS | Where there's a shortage of champagne for a mad miser (5) |
| FLAKYPASTRY | A flytrap in the sky for a mad pie topping? (5,6) |
| EXAM | Former master coming back for a test (4) |
| DRAMA | A mad king represented in play (5) |
| ALLEARS | A mad king's holding line, listening intently (3,4) |
| EXPERT | Cheeky to the former master (6) |
| MOLDAVIA | Former master's belting through part of Romania (8) |
| BLIND | Masque by Peter Maxwell Davies first performed in London in 1972 (5,4,4) |
