| QUEENOFSPADES | "The ...... ...", 1890 Tchaikovsky opera based on a novel by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| QUEENOF | 'The -', Tchaikovsky opera based on a short story by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| SPADES | 'The -', Tchaikovsky opera based on a short story by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| THEQUEENOFSPADES | Tchaikovsky opera based on a Pushkin story (3,5,2,6) |
| MAZEPPA | Tchaikovsky opera based on Pushkin's poem Poltava (7) |
| MAIDOFORLEANS | Tchaikovsky opera about a French martyr, with "The" |
| EUGENONEGIN | Which three-act opera by Tchaikovsky was based on a poem by Pushkin and premiered in Moscow on March |
| ONEGIN | Eugene ___: novel by Alexander Pushkin which was turned into a Tchaikovsky opera (6) |
| RUSSLAN | Opera by Glinka, from a poem by Pushkin (7,3,8) |
| AND | Opera by Glinka, from a poem by Pushkin (7,3,8) |
| LUDMILLA | Opera by Glinka, from a poem by Pushkin (7,3,8) |
| BORISGOUDANOV | Cheesy Pushkin play? |
| MANONLESCAUT | Puccini opera based on a 1731 novel by the Abbe Prevost (5,7) |
| EUGENEONEGIN | Tchaikovsky opera after Pushkin |
| GOLDENBOUGH | 'The ------ ', 1890 work by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer subtitled A Study In Magic And Religion (6,5) |
| LABORATORY | The -, 1890 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring Sherlock Holmes (4,2,4) |
| HUNGER | English name for the 1890 Norwegian novel Sult by Knut Hamsun |
| TRAGICMUSE | The -, 1890 novel by Henry James (6,4) |
| ABABCCDDEFFEGG | Rhyme scheme used by Pushkin |
| NEPOTISM | Corruption as described by Pushkin? (8) |
