| GRANDOLEOPRY | Weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, founded in 1925 (5,3,4) |
| OLE | Grand ___ Opry weekly country music stage concert |
| GRAND | Weekly country music radio programme first broadcast in 1925 (5,3,4) |
| OLDOPRY | Weekly country music radio programme first broadcast in 1925 (5,3,4) |
| ABANDON | Stop having what music stage often has? |
| DUET | Couple on the music stage |
| MAXWELLHOUSE | US coffee brand named after a former hotel in Nashville |
| ROSTROPOVICH | Soviet musician who gave his first cello concert in 1942 (12) |
| TASS | Russian news agency founded in 1925 (4) |
| BANG | ___ & Olufsen, Danish audio visual company founded in 1925 (4) |
| CHRYSLER | American car company founded in 1925 (8) |
| LEON | Kings of ___ , U.S. rock band founded in Nashville in 1999 (4) |
| OPRY | The Grand Ole ___ is a long-running country music show in Nashville. (4) |
| SAX | Music-maker succeeded with guitar in Nashville (3) |
| ALMOSTBLUE | Album by Elvis Costello and the Attractions recorded in Nashville in 1981 |
| EASTERN | The E in EHL, a league that had teams in Nashville and Charlotte |
| CANDW | Music popular in Nashville, briefly |
| GRANDOLEOPRAH | Nickname for a talk show host in Nashville? |
| JIM | Reeves who hit it big in Nashville |
| ERICCLOSE | Actor who is Teddy Conrad in Nashville. (4,5) |
