| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| CHOIRPRICE | What the musical group is asking? |
| BANDLEADER | Musical conductor ... and, literally, what the start of each answer to a starred clue is |
| HAIR | "What a Piece of Work Is Man" musical |
| SQUAREDANCE | Hoedown activity ... or what each group of circled letters is? |
| essences | A property or group of properties of something without which it would not exist or be what it is |
| ONELESS | Like the group after a round of musical chairs |
| STOMPERS | The Village ... (musical group with the 1963 hit "Washington Square") |
| ABBA | Pop group whose music was the basis of a hit 2001 Broadway musical |
| tune | to cause a group of musical instruments to be brought to the same pitch |
