| MENUHIN | Yehudi, U.S.-born violinist and conductor who died in 1999 (7) |
| BUSCH | Adolf ___, Germany-born violinist and composer whose son-in-law was the pianist Rudolf Serkin (5) |
| SARGENT | Malcolm ___, English composer and conductor who died in 1967 (7) |
| BEECHAM | Sir Thomas, conductor who died in 1961 (7) |
| TSELIOT | U.S.-born poet who wrote Old Possum's Book Of Practical Cats (1,1,5) |
| CELESTE | U.S.-born British singer/songwriter whose debut EP was The Milk & The Honey in 2017 (7) |
| GILLIAM | Terry, only U.S.-born Monty Python member (7) |
| RUBYWAX | U.S.-born comedian in Warwickshire town forgoing good increase (4,3) |
| PERLMAN | Tel Aviv-born violinist who made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1963 (6,7) |
| HEIFETZ | Jascha ?, Vilnius-born violinist who debuted at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 1917 (7) |
| MAHLER | Austrian composer and conductor who died in 1911 (6) |
| YEHUDIMENUHIN | Classical violinist and conductor who also worked with Ravi Shankar and jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli |
| WALTER | Bruno, Berlin-born conductor who died in Beverly Hills in 1962 (6) |
| SPOHR | Louis ___, German composer, violinist and conductor who wrote the operas Faust, Zemire und Azor and Jessonda |
| MARRINER | Neville, British violinist and conductor who founded the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (8) |
| SOLTI | Georg, Hungarian-born conductor who died in 1997 (5) |
| ITZHAKPERLMAN | Violinist and conductor who uses a motorized scooter because of a bout with polio: 2 wds. |
| RIEU | Dutch violinist and conductor who founded the Johann Strauss Orchestra (4) |
| BELL | Joshua, U.S. violinist and conductor born in 1967 (4) |
| BOULT | Adrian, British conductor who died in 1983 (5) |
