| AARONCOPLAND | American composer whose best-known works include Fanfare for the Common Man |
| LEONARD | American composer whose best-known work is the musical West Side Story, _ Bernstein (7) |
| WOOLF | Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, the novelist whose best-known works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the extended essay A Room of One's Own (5) |
| DYLANTHOMAS | 20th Century Welsh poet whose best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood (5,6) |
| MANET | Surname of the French painter whose best-known works include Absinthe Drinker and Bar at the Folies-Bergere (5) |
| COPLAND | American composer (Fanfare for the Common Man) |
| AARON | Fanfare for the Common Man composer (5,7) |
| ELP | "Fanfare for the Common Man" band, for short |
| FRIML | Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King |
| BATES | H.E. ---, 20th Century English author whose best-known works include The Darling Buds Of May (5) |
| RUSSELL | Willy -; playwright whose best-known works include Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine and Blood Brothers (7) |
| ANDYWARHOL | Pop artist whose best-known works include Campbell's Soup Cans and Marilyn Diptych (4,6) |
| BYRON | George Gordon ---, British poet whose best-known works include Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (5) |
| STUBBS | Painter of sporting/racing events, horses and wild, exotic animals whose best-known works include Whistlejacket and Mares and Foals in a Landscape (6) |
| PDQ | ___ Bach ("Fanfare for the Common Cold" composer) |
| PDQBACH | "Composer" of "Fanfare for the Common Cold" |
| RUTHPARK | New Zealand?born Australian author whose best-known works are the novels The Harp in the South and Playing Beatie Bow |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| ORFF | Carl _, German composer whose best-known work was the cantata Carmina Burana (1937) |
