| DYNASTY | US soap opera about the Carringtons (7) |
| DALLAS | City in Texas, or US soap opera about the Ewing family (6) |
| LANDING | Old US soap opera, Knots ___ (7) |
| FIDELIO | Opera about the steadfast wife of a political prisoner |
| KRYSTLE | Blake Carrington's wife in Dynasty (7) |
| YOUNG | Long-running US soap opera, The ... And The Restless |
| RESTLESS | The Young And The _, long-running US soap opera (8) |
| COLBY | In the American soap Dynasty, this family were the super-wealthy business rivals of the Carringtons |
| EWING | Surname of the wealthy Texan family in the US soap opera Dallas (5) |
| EDGE | "The ___ of Night" -- US soap opera than ran for three decades (4) |
| OFOUR | US soap opera, Days ... Lives (2,3) |
| ALL | Long-running US soap opera, ... My Children (3) |
| DAYS | _ of Our Lives, US soap opera (4) |
| OUR | "Days of ___ Lives" (US soap opera) (3) |
| MELROSE | US soap with Heather Locklear and Marcia Cross, ... Place (7) |
| BEACHAM | Stephanie _, played US soap character Sable Colby (7) |
| LORENZO | Star of US soap Falcon Crest, ------- Lamas (7) |
| ALEXIS | One of the Carringtons, on "Dynasty" |
| STETSON | Rancher's hat as worn by JR in the US soap, Dallas |
| AIDA | Verdi's opera about the fatal choice an Egyptian general must make - his country, the Pharaoh's daughter or his love for an Ethiopian princess and death (4) |
