Musical puns, jokes, and teasers

[Timtin]

Both correct!
Delius is an anagram of EU slid (as in glided down).
Grieg is an anagram of gg (gee-gee = horse) and ire (anger).

For No.5, don't think that the answer is taking too much huntin' to find.
For No.7, don't think that the answer is taking too much from my life.
For No.9, don't think that the answer is taking an ab-norma-ly long time.

[Nogbert]

OK, if nobody else is going to tackle Tim's last few, I might as well:

5. HÜNTEN (not sure of the connection between "ten" and Jupiter's moons: please elucidate!)
7. SMETANA (Anag. amnesty - y + a)
9. BELLINI (Ang. nil bile)

Jo

[fredbucket]

5. HÜNTEN (not sure of the connection between "ten" and Jupiter's moons: please elucidate!)

Jupiter's tenth moon is small...

Regards
Galileo

[Nogbert]

5. HÜNTEN (not sure of the connection between "ten" and Jupiter's moons: please elucidate!)

Jupiter's tenth moon is small...

Regards
Galileo

And so are the most of the remaining 63 or so. But I guess there aren't any composers named Hünthirtyseven...

[Timtin]

Hunten was derived as follows:-

Hun (from Attila, obviously).

Io is a small Jovian moon, in the sense of the length of its name,
rather than its size relative to Jupiter's many other moons.
Once Io is spotted, it's a short step from Io to 10
(looks the same when written down).
Finally, 10 = ten.

Hence Hun-ten.

Perhaps I was thinking too cryptically!
If you're a glutton for punishment, I'll do some more.

[rob]

...If you're a glutton for punishment, I'll do some more.

Yes please Sir! And I promise to fail to solve more than two, if I can even manage that.
Perhaps I'll do a single-country-based one again at the end of the week. A Slavic country would be a real challenge!

[Timtin]

Mr. Cameron meets Mr. Putin, metaphorically speaking.

1. Glare around. (5)
2. It's within alcohol strength. (5)
3. Massage lady's girdle. (6)
4. Standard score on course with endless rye. (5)
5. Street with an unbridged river crossing. (8)
6. See you with eye. (3)
7. Mr. Pogorelich very quietly violin (zero VAT) playing! (9-6)
8. Empty Vic took shish away. (12)
9. Vary Ku Klux Klan rooms? Is messy! (6-8)
10. Upset, Kev (a Blairite) loses tie. (9)

[rob]

6. Is Cui.
7. Could be Ippolitov-Ivanov?
9. Rimsky-Korsakov fits the word-lengths, but I am not certain it fits the clue!
10. Is Balakirev.

[Timtin]

All correct, of course, Rob!

7. Mr. Pogorelich = Ivo
Very softly = pp
Violin = violin
Zero VAT = o vat
Playing = 'form an anagram on these letters'.
Anagram of 'ivo pp violin o vat' = Ippolitov-Ivanov.

9. Vary = vary
Ku Klux Klan = KKK
Rooms. Is = rooms is
Messy = 'form an anagram on these letters'.
Anagram of 'vary kkk rooms is' = Rimsky-Korsakov.

The first 5 questions are all English composers, the second
5 questions all Russian. The English ones should be quite a bit
easier to spot than the others.

All clues should (hopefully) obey the rules of crossword-ese!

[Nogbert]

Has everybody else has given up? If so, here goes:

1. Elgar (Anag. glare)
2. Holst (hidden in alcoHOL STrength)
3. Rubbra (naughty, Tim!)
4. Parry (Par + rye - e)
5. Stanford (Abbr. of street + an + ford = river crossing)
8. Shostakovich (empty Vic = vc, then anag. with took shish + a)

Jo