| ETOILE | French word for "star", applied to Paris Opera Ballet's leading dancer (6) |
| BOLSHOI | ___ Ballet, leading ballet company of Russia (7) |
| ASTERS | Flowers named after the Greek word for "star" |
| STELLA | Name that's the Latin word for "star" |
| BUMBRY | Grace, late U.S. mezzo soprano who was the first black singer to perform at the Paris Opera (6) |
| BOLERO | Paris Opera debut of 1928 |
| ORNATE | Like the Paris Opera |
| LIFAR | Serge ___, Director of the Paris Opera Ballet who choreographed 1950 work Phedre (5) |
| ASTER | Flower that's the Latin word for "star" |
| YOUNG | Who, appointed musical director for Opera Australia in 2001, was the first woman to conduct the Paris Opera? (5) |
| SERGE | Ukrainian dancer and choreographer who was ballet master of the Paris Opera from 1930 to 1941 and from 1947 to 1958 (5,5) |
| PRIMA | Title given to a leading dancer such as Dame Margot Fonteyn, ... ballerina assoluta 5) |
| PRIMABALLERINA | Leading dancer beginning to patronise male librarian possibly (5,9) |
| ENTRANCED | Captivated on the way in by leading dancer (9) |
| CORYPHEE | Leading dancer in a corps de ballet (8) |
| BRUHN | Erik ?, Danish dancer; 1967-73 director of the Swedish Opera Ballet |
| CHAGALL | Marc ___, Russian-born French painter who decorated the ceiling of the Paris Opera House in 1964 (7) |
| MARC | Chagall who painted the ceiling of the Paris Opera |
| PHANTOM | Edgy patriarch finds article deposited by cat seen around Paris opera house |
| LEVILLI | Opera-ballet by Puccini that premiered on May 31, 1882 (2,5) |
