| PFENNIGS | Brass once used by Beethoven and Brahms making their mark |
| PFENNIG | It was once needed by Germans making their mark (7) |
| ODES | Works by Beethoven and Bobbie Gentry |
| ADELAIDE | Friedrich von Matthisson poem set to music by Beethoven and Schubert |
| ROMANTICS | Sentimental people such as Beethoven and Brahms (9) |
| THETHREEBS | Bach, Beethoven and Brahms (3,5,2) |
| BACH | Composer who is part of the Three B's with Beethoven and Brahms |
| CLASSICAL | Genre for Bach, Beethoven and Brahms |
| VIENNA | Where Beethoven and Brahms are buried |
| THREEBSSHEBEES | Bach, Beethoven and Brahms' queens? |
| THREEBS | Bach, Beethoven and Brahms |
| TBS | Bach, Beethoven and Brahms |
| ODETOJOY | Poem by Schiller used by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony (3,2,3) |
| MASCARA | From the Arabic for "buffoon", a cosmetic once used by clowns or by gentlemen to darken their eyebrows and moustaches, later by ladies to colour or thicken their eyelashes (7) |
| JOY | Ode to ___, poem used by Beethoven in his 9th Symphony (3) |
| LENDAHAND | Help Handel and Brahms and Liszt |
| WIRE | "The ___" (show that people were making their whole personality long before anyone was making "Mad Men" their whole personality) |
| DESCENT | Respectable characters intercepted by head of state while making their way down |
| VAN | Vehicle used by Beethoven (3) |
| SCAR | Cars crash and leave their mark (4) |
