| EXPRESS | Starlight ___ , British musical about a steam engine first performed in 1984 (7) |
| SOLDERS | Does what is necessary, perhaps, to repair old engine first before commencement of restoration in ship (7) |
| BOLERO | Cuban musical form to which Torvill and Dean famously performed in 1984 (6) |
| LIMO | An American is crazy about a steam engine, in short (4) |
| RELEASE | An album, film, news item, song etc made available to the public; a setting free; a control mechanism on a camera's shutter; or, the opening of a steam engine's exhaust valve (7) |
| CHIMNEY | A fireplace's flue; a steam engine's smokestack; a volcano's vent; or, an oil lamp's glass tube for protecting its flame (7) |
| GRAMPUS | Dolphin that sounds like a steam engine (7) |
| STEAMER | Boat propelled by a steam engine |
| SEATTLE | Northern starting point of Amtrak's'Coast Starlight'service (7) |
| BRADLEY | Edmond Halley's successor as Astronomer Royal who discovered the aberration of starlight and the nutation of the Earth's axis (7) |
| POPPINS | "Mary ___" (musical about a magical nanny) |
| FOLLIES | 1971 musical about a reunion |
| SPRINGER | Jerry ___ : The Opera, British musical written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee first performed in 2003 (8) |
| EVITA | First British musical to get the Best Musical Tony |
| PADDLESTEAMER | Early form of river transport driven by a steam engine (6,7) |
| TENDER | A railway wagon attached to a steam-engine to carry fuel and water |
| NEWCOMEN | Thomas, English engineer born in 1663 who developed a steam engine (8) |
| OLIVER | This British musical was nominated for 11 Oscars in 1968 (6) |
| GROVE | George, British musical scholar who was first director of the Royal College of Music (5) |
| RUSTY | Steam-engine protagonist of the 1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Starlight Express (5) |