| MUSICALDIRECTOR | So it is curried to calm the theatre's orchestra conductor (7,8) |
| PIT | Mine is the place for the theatre orchestra (3) |
| PARTERRE | A terrace near a house laid out with a formal arrangement of flower-beds; or, a theatre's orchestra stalls (8) |
| PITS | Theater orchestra sections |
| HALCYON | Bird believed to have the power to calm the sea during the winter solstice |
| LULLABY | Initially, line upon line, lo and behold, you find the lyrics to calm the fractious infant (7) |
| BICARB | One caught in sting gets something to calm the stomach (6) |
| ISSUE | See 12 Dn Resolve dispute to calm the children down (6,3,5) |
| NERVINE | Used to calm the mind or never in use? (7) |
| PACIFIERS | They try to calm the situation? Dummies! (9) |
| FINDINGTANDOORI | Curried fish animation? (7,8) |
| GUI | Which Italian conductor founded the Turin Theatre Orchestra in 1925 and the Florence Orchestra three years later? (3) |
| DARK | The theatre's closed, so keep it secret (4) |
| AUDITORIA | Bookkeeper returns first class from the theatres (9) |
| AREA | The size of the theatre's floor (4) |
| PLAYSON | Continues to bat, as 'The theatre's back!' (5,2) |
| SLOP | Stuff like it winds up in the theater's trash cans every night. |
| ROUGHER | The less calm, the more discourteous (7) |
| SOOTHE | Calm the man covered by what comes down the chimney (6) |
| SETTLETHE | And 22Dn. To resolve a point in dispute, calm the children down! (6,3,5) |
