| MAJORGENERAL | "The Pirates of Penzance" character with "information vegetable, animal, and mineral" |
| PIRATES | Penzance characters in an operetta |
| VEGETABLE | In chaos gave bet to the French usually found between animal and mineral (9) |
| NEGLIGEE | Slippery character with information about soldier returning in woman's underwear |
| IPHIGENIA | Two collaring Greek character with information linked to a Gluck heroine (9) |
| FROGS | In The Pirates Of Penzance, the Major-General could distinguish Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies and knew 'the croaking chorus from The ... of Aristophanes' |
| QUOTE | '... I know the kings of England. and I - the fights historical... ' says Major-General Stanley in The Pirates Of Penzance (5) |
| FREDERIC | The pirate apprentice of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance (8) |
| SULLIVAN | Arthur -; composer of 14 light operas in collaboration with W. S. Gilbert including HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance (8) |
| FOEMAN | When the ___ bares his steel, song from Act II of The Pirates of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan |
| GILBERT | Librettist who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan on HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance (7) |
| SAMUEL | One of the Pirates of Penzance |
| NOI | "___ Am Brave" ("The Pirates of Penzance" tune) |
| OPERETTA | Silly to repeat 'The Pirates of Penzance', for example (8) |
| RONSTADT | Linda, singer-actress whose film roles include Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance (8) |
| SAVOYOPERA | The Pirates of Penzance, for one (5,5) |
| MABEL | Frederic's love in "The Pirates of Penzance" |
| CORSAIR | My second tune, one from The Pirates of Penzance? |
| COMICOPERA | The Pirates of Penzance, e.g.; ceramic poo (anag.) (5,5) |
| PAPP | "The Pirates of Penzance" producer, 1981 |
