ANTHONY BURGESS, (THE) PIANOPLAYERS - Here's a chord you can't do without, [my dad] said, if you're a picture palace pianoplayer. You use it for fights, thunderstorms, burst dams, the voice of... God, ... a wife telling her old man... off. ... And he showed me. C E flat G flat A.
| A. | The opposite of diminished | AUGMENTED |
| B. | Birthplace of Wynton Marsalis (2 wds.) | NEWORLEANS |
| C. | Youmans/Caesar tune from a 1925 musical (3 wds.) | TEAFORTWO |
| D. | Like a rapt, expectant audience | HUSHED |
| E. | What Bruce Springsteen got for "Streets of Philadelphia" | OSCAR |
| F. | Bandmate of Tork, Dolenz and Jones | NESMITH |
| G. | Register-changing call | YODEL |
| H. | Rocker who invented Ziggy Stardust | BOWIE |
| I. | Grand alternative | UPRIGHT |
| J. | "Wabash Cannonball" singer (2 wds.) | ROYACUFF |
| K. | Material for the body of a sitar | GOURD |
| L. | Chanteuse known as the Little Sparrow (2 wds.) | EDITHPIAF |
| M. | Shoulder-shaking dance of 1920's flappers | SHIMMY |
| N. | 1971 film for which Isaac Hayes wrote the theme | SHAFT |
| O. | Tempo | PACE |
| P. | Ballad from "A Hard Day's Night" (3 wds.) | IFIFELL |
| Q. | Sound track | AUDIO |
| R. | Lyrical piece typical of Chopin | NOCTURNE |
| S. | Roman master of the elegiac couplet | OVID |
| T. | ___ Music Prize, prestigious award given annually by the king of Sweden | POLAR |
| U. | Note to play slowly | LARGO |
| V. | Out of harmony (2 wds.) | ATODDS |
| W. | Jazz musician who recorded "Eastern Sounds" in 1961 (2 wds.) | YUSEFLATEEF |
| X. | A source for Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung" | EDDA |
| Y. | "Fascinating" thing in a Gershwin song | RHYTHM |
| Z. | Crisply detached | STACCATO |