| BEAUTY | The Sleeping _ _ _ _ _ _ , ballet first performed in 1890 with music by Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (6) |
| SWAN | Ballet by the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, _ Lake (4) |
| GROUCHO | ____ Marx, U.S. comedian born in 1890 with the forenames Julius Henry (7) |
| SLEEPINGBEAUTY | Tchaikovsky ballet first performed in 1890 (8,6) |
| GISELLE | Peasant girl in the title of a ballet first performed in 1841 (7) |
| NUTCRACKER | The ___ is a ballet first. performed in Russia in December 1892. (10) |
| SWANLAKE | Tchaikovsky ballet first performed by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 (4,4) |
| IGOR | Prince ____, opera by romantic composer Alexander Borodin first performed in 1890 (4) |
| LABAYADERE | Minkus ballet first performed in St Petersburg in 1887 (2,8) |
| THEFIREBIRD | Stravinsky ballet first performed in 1910 (3,8) |
| RODEO | Aaron Copland ballet first performed in 1942 (5) |
| RITEOF | The ___, ballet with music by Igor Stravinsky first performed in 1913 (4,2,6) |
| ROYAL | The ___ Ballet; granted a charter by the Queen in 1956, a dance company in Covent Garden whose founder-choreographer was Frederick Ashton (5) |
| HOFFMANN | E. T. A. -; German writer whose novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was adapted into a ballet with a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (8) |
| FRITZ | Brother of Clara and Louise in the 1892 ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (5) |
| SUGAR | Dance of the - Plum Fairy ; piece for the celesta in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (5) |
| EFLATMAJOR | "Op.23, no.6, Prelude in _-___ ___" by Russian composer/pianist Rachmaninoff |
| BORODIN | Fellow in retreat over loud unpleasant noise made by Russian composer (7) |
| FIREBIRD | The ____, ballet and orchestral work by Igor Stravinsky first performed in 1910 (8) |
| THENUTCRACKER | 1892 ballet by Pyotr Tchaikovsky in which the Sugar Plum Fairy appears (3,10) |