| BROWN | George Mackay -; Orcadian author whose novel Magnus was adapted into a chamber opera by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (5) |
| ALBERTHERRING | A chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten, first performed in 1947 (6,7) |
| ELECT | Put into a chamber |
| EGILSAY | Orkney island where St Magnus was killed (7) |
| VINLAND | Historical novel by George Mackay Brown (7) |
| GREENVOE | George Mackay Brown's election support for environmentalists, having dumped leading Tory (8) |
| KINGPRIAM | Trojan opera by Sir Michael Tippett |
| OLYMPIANS | 'The 1949 opera by Sir Arthur Bliss (9) |
| RUMI | Poet whose work was set to music by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson in the chamber opera "Monsters of Grace" |
| SCREW | Benjamin Britten composed an English chamber opera based on Henry James's The Turn Of The ... |
| ROOST | Word for a perch for fowls; a group of said birds or bats resting together; a hen house; a sleeping-place; a Scottish garret or loft; a spar of a roof; or, an Orcadian tidal race (5) |
| WILDFOWL | Inhabiting the Slimbridge haven founded by Sir Peter Scott, type of water bird such as a duck or swan (8) |
| BEHN | Painted by Sir Peter Lely and remembered in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Charles II's spy who penned Oroonoko (4) |
| WATERFOWL | Aquatic bird such as a duck, goose or swan, or any one of those inhabiting the wetlands founded by Sir Peter Scott at Slimbridge (9) |
| FETE | The Village --; monumental painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (4) |
| PEERIE | Orcadian or Shetlandic for something "wee", such as a traditional knitted flower or "flooer" motif; or, a Scottish word for a spinning top (6) |
| NAZANIN | ___ Afshin-Jam (Activist wife of Justice Minister Peter MacKay who was Miss World Canada in 2003) |
| CHUM | A chamber-fellow, companion, comrade or crony; anglers' groundbait of chopped fish; a keta salmon; or, a former name of meaty meals prepared by Pedigree for pet pooches (4) |
| NONET | A chamber work by Louis Spohr was the first to bear this title |
| COMMODE | A bedside table with a cabinet below for a chamber pot or washbasin (7) |
