| EIGHTSONGS | & 6D 1969 music-theatre piece by Peter Maxwell Davies and Randolph Stow (5,5,3,1,3,4) |
| GERALDTON | WA birthplace of novelists Xavier Herbert and Randolph Stow (9) |
| TAVERNER | Composer and polyphonic master whose life is the subject of an opera by Peter Maxwell Davies (8) |
| BLIND | Masque by Peter Maxwell Davies first performed in London in 1972 (5,4,4) |
| WEIR | Composer of A Night at the Chinese Opera who was appointed Master of The Queen's Music in succession to Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in 2014 (4) |
| BROWN | George Mackay -; Orcadian author whose novel Magnus was adapted into a chamber opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (5) |
| DAVIES | Former Master of the Queen's Music whose music-theatre monodrama, Eight Songs for a Mad King, is based on words and observations of George III (6) |
| QI | British TV panel show starring Alan Davies and hosted by Sandi Toksvig |
| THECARETAKER | Play by Harold Pinter featuring the characters Mick, Davies and Aston (3,9) |
| TASKMASTER | TV comedy panel game show hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne (10) |
| CAPTAINKIDD | 1945 film starring Charles Laughton and Randolph Scott (7,4) |
| WOODSTOCK | Joni-Mitchell penned-song covered by Crosby, Still, Nash & Young about the 1969 music festival which is celebrating its 50th anniversary |
| OPERABUFFAS | Music theatre works? Superb Aida I'd missed off touring (5,6) |
| WARHORSE | Declining to accept sources of any really hoary old theatre piece? |
| MUSICALCHAIRS | Theatre piece: caught 60s example with small changes in personnel? (7,6) |
| SYNESTHESIA | Phenomenon that informed Wassily Kandinsky's theatre piece "The Yellow Sound" |
| ITAINT | BBC TV sitcom that featured Windsor Davies and Melvyn Hayes (2,4,4,3,3) |
| TWAIN | Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden played rival antique dealers in the sitcom Never the ____ |
| NEVERTHETWAIN | Sitcom which starred Windsor Davies and Donald Sinden as rival antique dealers |
| RONPICKERING | ____ coached 1964 Olympic long jump champion Lynn Davies, and later presented the TV show We Are the Champions |
