| HALFASIXPENCE | The threepenny musical? |
| MACK | Written as part of Weill and Brecht's musical drama, The Threepenny Opera, was The Ballad Of ... The |
| KURTWEILL | German composer who wrote the music for Bertolt Brecht's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and The Threepenny Opera |
| BRECHT | Bertolt, the German playwright who wrote the text of The Threepenny Opera (6) |
| WEILL | 20th-century German composer who wrote the music to The Threepenny Opera, Kurt _ (5) |
| OPERA | "The Threepenny ___" |
| LENYA | 'The Threepenny Opera' star |
| MACKTHEK | Hit from 'The Threepenny Opera' |
| KURT | Weill who composed "The Threepenny Opera" |
| BERTOLT | Kurt's "The Threepenny Opera" collaborator |
| LOTTE | Lenya of "The Threepenny Opera" |
| MACKTHEKNIFE | Macheath's sobriquet (The Threepenny Opera) (4,3,5) |
| BERTOLTBRECHT | 7A dramatist whose works include The Threepenny Opera (7,6) |
| ARIA | Lucy's solo in "The Threepenny Opera," e.g. |
| KNIFE | Song from The Threepenny Opera that gave Bobby Darin a number one hit in 1959 (4,3,5) |
| MACKTHE | Song from The Threepenny Opera that gave Bobby Darin a number one hit in 1959 (4,3,5) |
| PEN | The enclosure of a threepenny bit |
| THRIFT | An old word for prosperity; or, depicted on an issue of a threepenny bit, the sea pink or lady's cushion whose Gaelic name "tonna chladaich" means "beach wave" (6) |
| TREY | A set of three; a playing card or die with a value between deuce and cater; the third tine of a stag's antler; or, a threepenny bit (4) |
| JOEY | Nickname of a threepenny bit; a circus clown in the English tradition; or, a baby kangaroo, koala, opossum, wallaby or other marsupial (4) |
