| EGMONT | Overture and incidental music composed by Beethoven for a 1787 play by Goethe (6) |
| IBSEN | Dramatist whose play, Peer Gynt, features incidental music composed by Grieg, including Morning Mood (5) |
| SCHERZO | From Italian for "jest, joke", a brisk lively type of orchestral movement, composed by Ludwig van Beethoven for nearly all of his nine symphonies (7) |
| ONE | Number of operas composed by Beethoven |
| PASTORAL | Symphony composed by Beethoven (1808) |
| FIDELIO | The only opera composed by Beethoven (7) |
| DOG | Beethoven, for one |
| COMPOSER | Beethoven, for example (8) |
| EDVARD | Composer who wrote the incidental music for Peer Gynt, the Holberg Suite for strings, etc. (6,5) |
| KUHLAU | German-born Danish composer and concert pianist, best known for the incidental music Elverhoj (6) |
| OBERON | Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, moon of Uranus named after the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| BOUNTY | Royal Navy ship which set sail for Tahiti in 1787 (6) |
| CUNARD | Samuel --, shipping magnate born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1787 (6) |
| EXHAUST | Run through former play by Goethe, hard for following (7) |
| UHLAND | Ludwig, German romantic poet (1787-1862) |
| SENATE | Subject of the 1787 Connecticut Compromise |
| OPERA | A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes (5) |
| PEERGYNT | Incidental music by Edvard Grieg for a play by Henrik Ibsen (4,4) |
| FAUST | Play by Goethe, published in two parts |
| INTHEHALLOF | Piece of orchestral music composed by Edvard Grieg for Henrik Ibsen's 1876 play Peer Gynt (2,3,4,2,3,8,4) |
