Welcome to our Easter Crossword! As you'd expect, many of the clues have a musical theme...
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There are a number of named symphonies (with their English name) in this crossword which do not have a definition in the clue. There is one symphony by each of the following composers: Ludwig Van Beethoven, Carlos Chavez, Phillip Glass, Henryk Górecki, Lou Harrison, Joseph Haydn, Charles Ives, Franz Liszt, Gustav Mahler, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Camille Saint-Saëns, Dmitri Shostakovich, Richard Strauss & Friedrich Witt
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| 2 | Average Chick Corea record (5) | 1 | Consider umpire on the French scan (7) |
| 5 | Manage navy one tin (10) | 2 | Woman saying deprived note (5) |
| 12 | Don't eat around university (5) | 3 | Shops rise later in disguise (9) |
| 13 | Language Britten sings west among US soldier (7) | 4 | At first, some sailor about sword (5) |
| 14 | Someone who stores a damaged rifle (5) | 6 | No mate is a stone (4) |
| 15 | In my opinion, a sibling with double energy 'it (2,1,3,2) | 7 | Flame violet record is US agency (7) |
| 16 | Francis is interspersed with hot cot (8) | 8 | Hiding in piano father is good for you? (2,3) |
| 18 | To confused Celt (6) | 9 | Instruments phone me (5) |
| 20 | Hear music to a muddled chunk of land (5,7) | 10 | Going upwards with a broken thorny drawl (11) |
| 24 | Shropshire town the Spanish atop the French lake (9) | 11 | Against missing (8) |
| 25 | Resting without a unit of angle (9) | 17 | Letter student and the rest (2,2) |
| 27 | Music college society chamber (9) | 19 | Sweets sprawl over a single two directions (7) |
| 30 | I have hair to lick you first around secretly (9) | 21 | One gets out in time (3) |
| 32 | What is celebrated on Easter Sunday (12) | 22 | Middle Eastern Ben's missing his head (7) |
| 34 | Long after lower half of 17 (6) | 23 | Classic family game, but G's gone walkabout (4) |
| 36 | Sounds like speaking test went well (8) | 24 | Nasty drug goes pop on Chinese dish (3,4,4) |
| 39 | School section of a poem (8) | 26 | Emperor chain (4) |
| 43 | Love, love seal (1-4) | 28 | German major starts smelly fruit (3) |
| 44 | Or headless opera forged of a Greek poet (7) | 29 | Instrument decapitated instrument (4) |
| 45 | Cold confused heir becomes french darling (5) | 30 | Fish scramble (8) |
| 46 | Never odd or even (10) | 31 | Unwell icy rum mixed in Roman Balkans (9) |
| 47 | Dance, uncle degree (5) | 33 | English-American pronoun fill with love (7) |
| 35 | A gel ice put right (7) | ||
| 37 | Talent? Sport left lake (5) | ||
| 38 | Alternatively, gain without me? (5) | ||
| 40 | Holst part 2, removing 46 from venomous (5) | ||
| 41 | Woman, perhaps Russian, is before a beheaded Greek heroine (5) | ||
| 42 | Junk food (4) |
Enjoy!
