| MENISCI | The composer's back touring since breaking pieces of cartilage (7) |
| GRISTLE | Term for pieces of cartilage sometimes found in meat. (7) |
| FIENDISH | Fine breaking piece of crockery for savage |
| HINDEMITH | Composer's back ___ hard to follow broadcast (9) |
| DISCREPANCIES | Record-breaking pieces ran into conflicts (13) |
| MENSCH | Son, breaking pieces, taps good egg (6) |
| ROSSINI | Chaplain is sorry for holding composer back (7) |
| TRUERIB | Someone who regrets breaking piece over fixed bone |
| PARAPET | Clumsy person breaking piece in wall |
| XIPHOIDPROCESS | Piece of cartilage given six chops - dire op bungled? (7,7) |
| DISCOMPOSURE | Upset finding piece of cartilage with more soup dished up |
| NAIROBI | Blessed possibly going back, touring round island capital (7) |
| AMNESIC | Forgetful of a maiden since breaking up |
| SALIERI | Antonio -; one of the composers depicted in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus (7) |
| AUSTRIA | Homeland of the composers Haydn and Schubert |
| TRAVELS | First of the composer's journeys (7) |
| AMADEUS | What name did Peter Shaffer give to his 1979 play about the composers Mozart and Salieri? (7) |
| TALESOF | Well-known opera by Offenbach, produced in Paris in 1881, after the composer's death (3,5,2,8) |
| CHONDROGENESIS | Process of cartilage formation in the body, constituting the earliest phase of skeletal development (14) |
| LYTTA | Fibrous, muscular band of cartilage located on the underside of the tongue in dogs (5) |
