| BALLETOMANE | A ballet enthusiast |
| NUTCRACKER | Ballet enthusiast takes the biscuit (10) |
| HOFFMANN | E. T. A. -; German writer whose novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was adapted into a ballet with a score by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (8) |
| ENSEMBLE | Instrumentalists in a string quartet or orchestra collectively; the chorus of a ballet company; or, a person's coordinated outfit (8) |
| QUATRE | French for a playing card, domino or side of a die with four pips; or, a ballet sequence for four dancers (6) |
| CODA | From Latin for "tail", the clinching passage of a movement or piece; a ballet finale; or, a concluding event, remark, section etc generally (4) |
| ENPOINTE | Like a ballet dancer doing a pirouette |
| ARABESQUE | Be a square about a ballet posture (9) |
| AFTERNOON | The - of a Faun; English name of L'Apres-midi d'un faune, a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky |
| REGISSEUR | French word for a stage manager or the director of a ballet company (9) |
| SWANLAKE | A ballet composed by Tchaikovsky, premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 (4,4) |
| TUTU | Skirt, usually made from tulle, worn as a costume in a ballet performance |
| BILLY | Film and stage production about a boy aspiring to be a ballet dancer, ... Elliot |
| RAIL | Dado-like moulding on which to hang framed pictures; a ballet barre; or, a track for curtains (4) |
| AUDEN | W. H. -; poet whose Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Anxiety inspired a symphony and a ballet (5) |
| PLIE | Knee-bend performed by a ballet dancer at a bar (4) |
| ENTRECHAT | A vertical jump by a ballet dancer (9) |
| GLISSADE | A ballet movement typically used as a joining step (8) |
| BILLYELLIOT | 2000 movie about a boy who wants to become a ballet dancer (2 wds.) |
| FLAT | Word for something even or level, such as a ballet shoe, grassy plain or line on a monitor when the heart stops beating; or, an apartment (4) |
