| LAHAINE | 1874 play by Victorien Sardou for which Jacques Offenbach wrote incidental music |
| FEDORA | Style of brimmed hat named after a play written by Victorien Sardou for Sarah Bernhardt (6) |
| OPERA | Jacques Offenbach wrote his first in 1864 (5) |
| LATOSCA | 1887 play by Victorien Sardou upon which Puccini's 1900 opera is based: 2 wds. |
| TOSCA | Opera by Puccini based on a play by Victorien Sardou |
| EGMONT | 1788 play by Goethe for which Beethoven wrote incidental music |
| EDVARDGRIEG | Norwegian composer who wrote incidental music for Ibsen's play Peer Gynt |
| GRIEG | Edvard, Norwegian composer who wrote incidental music to the play Peer Gynt (5) |
| SIBELIUS | Jean, Finnish composer who wrote incidental music to Shakespeare's play The Tempest (8) |
| ORPHEUS | - in the Underworld ; operetta with music by Jacques Offenbach (7) |
| LAPERICHOLE | Holier place sorted for opera bouffe by Jacques Offenbach that premiered in 1868 (2,9) |
| OPERETTE | Form of musical drama composed by Jacques Offenbach, Franz Lehar or Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert in collaboration by Richard D'Oyly Carte (8) |
| THETALESOF | and 41dn, Opera by Jacques Offenbach whose most famous aria is the Barcarolle, from Act 2 |
| HOFFMANN | The Tales of ___: opera by Jacques Offenbach (8) |
| INTHE | 1858 opera by Jacques Offenbach (7,2,3,10) |
| UNDERWORLD | 1858 opera by Jacques Offenbach (7,2,3,10) |
| SARDOU | Victorien who wrote "La Tosca," on which the Puccini opera is based |
| OPERETTAS | Light-hearted musical dramas such as those composed by Jacques Offenbach, Johann Strauss or Franz Lehar (9) |
| ORPHEUSINTHEUNDERWORLD | 1858 operetta by Jacques Offenbach |
| ORPHEUSINTHE | 1858 operetta by Jacques Offenbach |
