| DUKEELLINGTON | US jazz composer famous for works such as Mood Indigo (4,9) |
| DOOMSDAY | It brings everything to an end as mood turns to talk about Penny (8) |
| SADOMASOCHIST | Painstaking (and giving) type might crack his cat as moods vary (4-9) |
| CHARLIEMINGUS | US jazz composer and double bass player who died in 1979 (7,6) |
| JOHANNSTRAUSS | Composer famous for his waltzes (6,7) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish dramatist famous for works including Waiting For Godot (6,7) |
| ENCYCLOPEDIAS | Reference works such as Natural History by Pliny, Britannica or modern electronic versions such as E |
| TERESA | Spanish saint and author famous for her mystic visions and for works such as Book of the Foundations and The Interior Castle (6) |
| CIVILENGINEER | Designer and constructor of works such as roads and bridges (5,8) |
| TIMWINTON | Australian novelist acclaimed for works such as Cloud Street and Breath (3,6) |
| MONDRIAN | Piet, Dutch abstract painter noted for works such as Broadway Boogie Woogie (8) |
| EMIN | Tracey _, British artist known for works such as My Bed (4) |
| HOGARTH | William ---, 18th-Century English painter and satirist, noted for works such as A Rake's Progress (7) |
| ELLINGTON | Jazz composer of Mood Indigo I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good |
| GRIEG | Norwegian composer famous for his music for Ibsen's Peer Gynt etc. (5) |
| MINGUS | Charlie ___, US jazz composer and double bass player who died in 1979 (6) |
| SUNRA | US jazz composer and bandleader, born Herman Poole Blount (3,2) |
| OCTOPUS | Possibly scout around for work, such as a diver might find (7) |
| OTT | Horace, US jazz composer-arranger (3) |
| PACHELBEL | Johann ___, German Baroque composer famous for his Canon in D (9) |
