| TELEMANN | TV personality acquiring name as composer (8) |
| LIBERTINE | Large individual, Edward VII acquiring name as this |
| BACKLASH | Adverse reaction as composer jabbed by virologist from below (8) |
| GIVESEAR | Listens, as composer gets into harness (5,3) |
| MERCHANTSHIP | First person, Republican guy, acquiring name with this unusual vessel (8,4) |
| IMPRUDENCE | I am joining puritan church, acquiring name for recklessness (10) |
| RENOWN | Buffalo-owner acquiring name and fame (6) |
| EPONYM | Mope aimlessly around city, acquiring name |
| PROVINCES | Experts acquiring name outside the capital |
| WRONGS | Criminal grows acquiring name for unfair actions (6) |
| THRONGING | Jamming in concert, acquiring name after moving north |
| ARNOLD | Composer's short and wrinkly, as composer (6) |
| ELGAR | Tantrum, looking back, depressed second clarinettist as well as composer |
| DUKAS | Nobleman detailed as composer of "The French Harry Potter" (5) |
| MENOTTI | People object to turn as composer (7) |
| HOLSTER | Put weapon away as composer meets monarch (7) |
| ARNOLDBAX | One who's finished studying under Schoenberg unknown as composer |
| HANDEL | Letters he has left as composer |
| WOLFINSHEEPSCLOTHING | Threat unrecognised as composer gets fleeced? |
| FALLABOUT | Laugh heartily as composer has book published |
