| JEROMEKERN | US composer of the stage musicals Show Boat and Roberta (6,4) |
| KERN | Jerome, US composer of the stage musical Show Boat (4) |
| HAMMERSTEIN | Oscar ----------- II, lyricist for musicals Show Boat and Oklahoma! (11) |
| EDITH | First name of the novelist who wrote about siblings Peter, Phyllis and Roberta in The Railway Children (5) |
| JEROME | Composer of Show Boat and The Last Time I Saw Paris, ... Kern |
| LASTTIMEI | Jerome Kern composed Show Boat and The ... Saw Paris (4,4,1) |
| LIONELBART | Composer of the stage musicals Twang! and Maggie May (6,4) |
| BART | Lionel ___, composer of the stage musicals Twang! and Maggie May (4) |
| STRAVINSKI | Russian-born US composer of works including the operas The Nightingale (1914) and The Rake's Progress (1951) (4,10) |
| SOUSA | John Philip ___, US composer of the march The Stars and Stripes Forever (5) |
| OPERA | The Phantom of the -, stage musical (5) |
| ROREM | Ned ___, US composer of the operas Bertha, Our Town and Miss Julie (5) |
| CAGE | John, US composer of the pieces Scottish Circus and Cartridge Music (4) |
| MANCINI | US composer of the theme from The Pink Panther |
| LOEWE | Frederick, US composer of the musical comedy Brigadoon (5) |
| RODGERS | Richard, US composer of the musical On Your Toes (7) |
| GLASS | Philip, US composer of the opera Akhnaten (5) |
| BERNSTEIN | US composer of the score to West Side Story |
| MISSISSIPPI | Subject of the song 'Ol' Man River' in the 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical Show Boat (11) |
| RAMIN | Canadian stage musicals performer Mr. Karimloo who was inspired by the Toronto production of The Phantom of the Opera starring Colm Wilkinson |
