| BLUEDANUBE | What ("The ___ ___") is Strauss the Younger's most famous composition? (4,6) |
| BOLERO | Ravel's most famous composition (6) |
| WARCRY | What (The ___ ___) is a publication of the Salvation Army? (3,3) |
| HOUSEOFCARDS | What (The ___ ___ ___) completes a trilogy with To Play the King and The Final Cut? (5,2,5) |
| BIGIDEA | What's the ___ ___, what on earth is going on? (3,4) |
| USEIN | "What's the ___ ___ trying?" (Why bother?) |
| ONLYWAY | Reality series: The _ _ Is Essex (4,3) |
| STANHOPE | William Pitt the Younger's niece who gave up aristocratic life and travelled the Middle East dressed as a sheikh on her Arab stallion, settling in a ruined convent in the Lebanon Mountains (8) |
| PRICE | "The _ _ Is Right" |
| COLE | One of the Youngers |
| NURSE | ' The priest continues what the ___ began' (John Dryden The Hind and the Panther (1687) |
| NERO | Agrippina the Younger's son |
| ANABASIS | An ascent or going up; or, a military advance, such as Cyrus the Younger's into Asia, as related by Xenophon (8) |
| HECK | What the ___ (what is going on) |
| FUTURE | Steps' most recent album, What The _ Holds (6) |
| BLUE | & 15A The -, common title of a waltz by Johann Strauss the Younger, Op 314, which premiered in 1867 (4,6) |
| DANUBE | The -, common title of a waltz by Johann Strauss the Younger, Op 314, which premiered in 1867 (6) |
| DIE | 1874 operetta by Johan Strauss the younger (3,10) |
| RUSTLE | To Strauss, the sound of Spring came from Ulster (6) |
| DIEFLEDERMAUS | 1874 three-act operetta by Johann Strauss the younger (3,10) |