| IBERT | Jacques, French composer of the 1926 opera Angelique (5) |
| KODALY | Zoltan ___, composer of the 1926 opera Hary Janos (6) |
| ROXIE | ___ Hart, main character of the 1926 play Chicago, later made into a musical film (5) |
| HALEVY | Jacques, French composer of the opera La Juive (6) |
| DAVID | Jacques, French painter of The Oath of the Horatii (5) |
| FINAL | & 18D The -, 1926 novel by H C McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper (5,5) |
| COUNT | See 14Ac, The -, 1926 novel by H C McNeile under the pseudonym Sapper (5,5) |
| OFFENBACH | Jacques, French composer of the operetta La Belle Helene (9) |
| FRERE | ___ Jacques, French children's song (5) |
| GISH | Star of the 1926 version of "The Scarlet Letter" |
| ADOREE | Renee of the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" |
| ROXIEHART | Main character of the 1926 play Chicago by US playwright Maurine Dallas Watkins (5,4) |
| DALBERT | Eugen ___, Scotland-born German composer of 1926 opera Der Golem (7) |
| NESSUNDORMA | Aria in the 1926 Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot whose name translates as 'Let no one sleep' (6,5) |
| TAWNEY | R H ___, English economic historian whose works include the 1926 volume Religion and the Rise of Capitalism |
| TOD | Browning who directed the 1926 silent film "The Blackbird" |
| EQUIANGLED | Open to the same degree, Angelique had finally converted (10) |
| JAYGATSBY | Starring role for Canadian actor James Rennie (b.1890 - d.1965) in the 1926 Broadway adaptation of F |
| MURDEROF | & 22A The -, 1926 novel by Agatha Christie featuring detective Hercule Poirot (6,2,5,7) |
| ARROWSMITH | Novel awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize |
