Guardian Prize Crossword Saturday December 21St 2013

[catsrcool]

1ac Small town clamour (7) ????d??
7dn Sounds from the herd reach into the wood (7) l?w???s
22dn Song thrush is off, finally (2,5) ?a ?l?s?
17ac Leading industrialist books house exchange on Thursday (2,3,5) ?? ?h? ????h
49ac Otterden is going out on Sunday (5) ?????
Some of the answers are composers and some of them are works by them but whether that applies to any of the above I don't know.

[iminoz]

1a borodin

[mallyh]

22 at last

[mallyh]

as soon as my finger pressed go i realised that was wrong sorry

[Calibax]

22d Ma Vlast - Mav(is) + last

[roslyn251254]

17a In the south - music by Elgar (another of the themed answers)
49s Holst (themed answer)
7d lowings

[catsrcool]

Thank you how is 49 parsed?

[roslyn251254]

holt is an otters den with s for sunday

[catsrcool]

Thanks I think I am still going to be doing this crossword on Christmas day :-)

[roslyn251254]

No you're not - it gets much easier as it fills up - just keep asking for help on here!