| ESPAGNOLE | Phenomenal gossip involved with start and end of early concerto by Lalo (9,9) |
| SYMPHONIE | Phenomenal gossip involved with start and end of early concerto by Lalo (9,9) |
| ERA | Period with start and end dates |
| EXOGAMY | Paper about act backing end of early norm of marrying outside a community (7) |
| LEROIDYS | Soldiery active in opera by Lalo (2,3,3) |
| CHITCHAT | Gossip involved Tory leader in chic hat (8) |
| EDEN | Journalist contracted with start and finish of eleven PM |
| FORMULAIC | Fico involved with start of right-wing maul conforming to a pattern |
| FIREBUG | Figure involved with start of blaze? (7) |
| ASSIST | Electronics have been brought in to do this with starts, and even with stopping. (6) |
| OISTRAKH | David ___, violinist who was the dedicatee of numerous violin works, including both of Shostakovich's violin concertos and the violin concerto by Khachaturian |
| CLARINETS | Single-reed instruments developed in the 17th century by adding two keys to the chalumeau, first used in a concerto by Mozart (9) |
| EMPEROR | Name of a concerto by Beethoven (7) |
| SEASONS | The Four -; set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, recomposed in a contemporary style by Max Richter (7) |
| UNPLAYABLE | According to the players they were written for, the violin concertos by Tchaikovsky and Barber were ____ |
| LLANO | New start in Lalo composition is quite plain (5) |
| APATHY | Disinterest of a priest at start and end of homily (6) |
| YEARLINGS | Twelve months left in the start and end of Games with horses (9) |
| STANDOVER | Supervise start and end of shift by town in Hampshire (5,4) |
| INE | Like a violin concerto by Bach |