| OPERALOVERS | Term for aficionados, buffs, fans or connoisseurs of bouffes, buffas or other musical dramas or "works" (5-6) |
| OPERA | Musical drama or comedy (5) |
| COMICOPERAS | Bouffes that make you giggle |
| SERIA | Opera ___ (opera buffa's counterpart) |
| PIPE | A note of a bird; a flute, oat or other musical tube, imitative of such a cheep or chirp; or, something thusly cylindrical, such as a clay, duct, hose or a stick for curling a wig (4) |
| NOTE | A minim or other musical symbol placed on a staff or stave (4) |
| SPOONER | W A ___, English clergyman renowned for his transposition of the initial consonants of a pair of wor |
| SERIES | A cycle/set of banknotes, books, coins, games, stamps, television dramas or other related things (6) |
| OENOPHILE | Lover or connoisseur of wine, anagram of HOLE I OPEN (9) |
| THEFEW | Name for the Allied airmen of the Royal Air Force who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second Wor |
| BALEEN | What type of whalebone was used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets? (6) |
| EPISODES | Instalments of serialised radio or television dramas; or, incidents (8) |
| LUTES | Musical instruments that become other musical instruments when an F is added to the front |
| ROMAN | No dramas or upset on Watling Street and Fosse Way, for example (5,5) |
| ROADS | No dramas or upset on Watling Street and Fosse Way, for example (5,5) |
| SOAP | Cleanser from which a genre of serialised television/radio dramas or "operas" derive their name (4) |
| FOCH | Ferdinand, marshal of France who was commander in chief of Allied armies on the Western front in Wor |
| BREAKUPTHEBAND | Disappoint a bunch of music fans ... or what the two words in each theme entry do |
| CHARISMA | An ability to attract the attention and admiration of others as fans or followers (8) |
| DOVETAIL | A type of tenon or joint that is characteristically fan- or wedge-shaped, like the spread train feathers of a culver or columba (8) |
