| PERFORMINGARTS | Working magic - the field of dancers and musicians |
| DEGAS | Artist noted for his bronzes of dancers and his studies in oil and pastel of ballerinas, horse-racing and the millinery trade (5) |
| VITUS | Patron saint of dancers and actors |
| ORCHESTRA | An awful chore, dressing the star dancer and musicians (9) |
| MAGNIFICAT | Working magic with faint choral work? (10) |
| GREENWICH | Party politician, heartless female working magic somewhere in London |
| SANTA | Master of Dancer and Dasher |
| DASHER | Partner of Dancer and Prancer |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| COLOUR | The ___ of Magic, the first of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (6) |
| ANTE | Remove a card before the start of the game, in Magic: The Gathering |
| BLOM | Which English critic edited the fifth edition of Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians and wrote |
| LEOTARD | Tight-fitting one-piece elastic garment that covers the torso and is worn by dancers and gymnasts |
| TORVILL | Champion ice dancers and talent judges, Jayne ------and Christopher Dean (7) |
| ARENA | "MTG ___" (digital version of "Magic: The Gathering") |
| RARE | Like the iconic Black Lotus card in Magic: The Gathering |
| MEISTERSINGER | One of the burgher poets and musicians in Germany in the 14th - 16th centuries (13) |
| ORPHEUS | The Greeks of the Classical age venerated him as chief among poets and musicians (7) |
| MINNESINGER | Member of the German medieval school of mainly aristocratic lyric poets and musicians |
| UNITARD | One-piece garment worn by dancers and gymnasts, covering the body from neck to feet (7) |