| DAVIES | Peter Maxwell, English composer whose works include the opera Taverner (6) |
| PETERMAXWELL | British composer of 1972 opera Taverner (5,7) |
| BRYARS | Gavin, English composer whose works include the opera Doctor Ox's Experiment (6) |
| RAMEAU | Jean Philippe ___, French composer whose works include the opera Castor et Pollux (6) |
| BARBER | Samuel, US composer whose works include the opera Antony and Cleopatra (6) |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy ___, Transylvanian-born composer whose works include the opera Le Grand Macabre |
| ENESCU | George ___, Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher whose works include the opera Oedipe |
| EDWARD | English composer whose works included The Dream Of Gerontius and the Pomp And Circumstance Marches (6,5) |
| DELIUS | English composer whose works include Sea Drift, Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and A Song Before Sunrise (6) |
| HENRY | 17th-century English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas and the masque The Fairy-Queen (5,7) |
| TIPPETT | Sir Michael ___, English composer whose works include the operas The Midsummer Marriage, King Priam and The Knot Garden (7) |
| CLARKE | English composer whose Trumpet Voluntary was incorrectly attributed to Henry Purcell (6) |
| THOMAS | Kristin Scott _ actress who plays Diana Taverner in Slow Horses (6) |
| SERGEIPROKOFIEV | Russian composer whose works include the opera The Love for Three Oranges (6,9) |
| MICHAELTIPPETT | English composer whose works include the oratorio A Child of Our Time and the opera The Midsummer Marriage |
| SMETANA | Czech composer whose works include the opera The Bartered Bride (7) |
| BEDRICHSMETANA | Czech composer whose works include the opera The Bartered Bride (7,7) |
| GAVIN | Across English composer whose works include 1998 opera Doctor Ox's Experiment (5,6) |
| WARLOCK | Peter, English composer whose works included the song cycle The Curlew (7) |
| HOLST | Gustav ___, English composer whose works include the orchestral suite The Planets (5) |
