| ARTUROTOSCANINI | Who quipped "God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way" |
| INTEMPO | Point me for a change where the music should be (2,5) |
| ENDS | "Please Don't Tell Me How the Story ___" |
| RECIPE | I meet some creep who tells me how to cook (6) |
| ONCDS | How the music from your high school friend's old garage band is likely stored |
| REMIXED | How the music was treated to a second stir? (7) |
| NOUGHT | But nothing, initially, should sound like nothing at all. (6) |
| ARTLESS | Natural that Cockney should sound callous |
| NORISK | Investment descriptor that should sound alarms |
| SOAP | To fall to the ocean floor, as an anchor does (or what you stand in front of in the bathroom when you're washing your hands) |
| EMO | Philips who quipped "A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing" |
| OSCARWILDE | Writer who quipped "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast" |
| BRIERS | Richard ?, actor who starred in 1993 BBC TV comedy series If You See God, Tell Him (6) |
| SIT | Yet you stand in an election in order to do this... (3) |
| BEETHOVEN | "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman" speaker |
| WILDE | Oscar who quipped, "True friends stab you in the front" |
| ALGORE | Politician who quipped, 'You win some, you lose some, and then there's that little-known third categ |
| RIVERS | Joan who quipped "A Peeping Tom looked in my window and pulled down the shade" |
| STEVEN | Wright who quipped, "Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time" |
| IFEELFINE | Beatles song with the lyrics "Baby says she's mine, you know / She tells me all the time" |
