| STOKOWSKI | Leopold -, London-born conductor of music for 1940 film Fantasia (9) |
| MAESTRO | An eminent composer, teacher, or conductor of music; a master of any art (7) |
| BARENBOIM | Daniel -, Argentina-born conductor and pianist; music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1991-2006 (9) |
| MANTOVANI | Italian-born conductor who released a host of popular light music albums |
| ASHKENAZY | Vladimir ___, Russian-born conductor and pianist who became a citizen of Iceland in 1972 |
| CARLDAVIS | New York-born conductor and composer whose film scores include The French Lieutenant's Woman |
| CHICKADEE | 1940 film starring Mae West and W.C. Fields, My Little ___ (9) |
| SINGAPORE | 1940 film, first in a series starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby (9) |
| SAPSATSEA | 1940 film comedy starring Laurel and Hardy |
| NORTHWEST | "________ Passage," 1940 film |
| GIVEADAMN | 'Frankly, my dear, I don't ____', line by Rhett Butler in the 1940 film Gone With The Wind (4,1,4) |
| SURROUNDSOUND | Audio technique first used commercially for the 1940 animated film Fantasia |
| DAVIES | Lancashire-born conductor, composer and former Master of the Queen's Music remembered for Eight Songs for a Mad King and Taverner (6) |
| KUBELIK | Rafael ___, Czech-born conductor and composer who was music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1979 |
| OTTO | First name of the 1885-1973 German-born conductor Klemperer (4) |
| HAITINK | Bernard, Amsterdam-born conductor born in 1929 (7) |
| SOLTI | Georg, Hungarian-born conductor and pianist born in 1912 (5) |
| ARTHURFIEDLER | Which Boston-born conductor was the US's best known for almost half a century? (6,7) |
| WALTER | Bruno, Berlin-born conductor who died in Beverly Hills in 1962 (6) |
| DORATI | Antal ___, Budapest-born conductor awarded an honorary KBE in 1983 (6) |
