Answer:

PIANIST

Answer	Crossword Clue
PIANIST	Key tinkler
PIANIST	Key player?
PIANIST	Pedal pusher?

PIANIST	Chopin or Liszt
PIANIST	Rachmaninoff, e.g.
PIANIST	Upright citizen?
PIANIST	One working on a bench?
PIANIST	Arrau or Cliburn
PIANIST	Elton John or Billy Joel
PIANIST	Benched player?
PIANIST	One tickling the ivories

PIANIST	Borge or Cliburn
PIANIST	Borge or Liberace
PIANIST	Cocktail-lounge employee
PIANIST	Ivories tickler
PIANIST	Nero, notably
PIANIST	Concerto performer, often
PIANIST	Beethoven or Brahms
PIANIST	Lounge performer

PIANIST	Player in Tante: Mrs. Sedgwick.
PIANIST	Hofmann, Horowitz or Hess.
PIANIST	William Kapell, for instance.
PIANIST	Master of the "88."
PIANIST	Van Cliburn.
PIANIST	Performer in one of the arts.
PIANIST	Cliburn.
PIANIST	Musician.

PIANIST	Van Cliburn's profession.
PIANIST	Concert star.
PIANIST	Rubinstein
PIANIST	Musician
PIANIST	Cliburn, e.g.
PIANIST	Serkin or Watts
PIANIST	Liberace, for one
PIANIST	Andre Watts, for one

PIANIST	Liberace was one
PIANIST	Nero or Rubinstein
PIANIST	Cafe booking
PIANIST	Grand master?
PIANIST	Key person?

Crossword

a puzzle consisting of a grid of squares and blanks into which words crossing vertically and horizontally are written according to clues.