| LEROUX | "The Phantom of the Opera" author Gaston |
| OPERA | The Phantom Of The _, novel by French author, Gaston Leroux (5) |
| ERIK | Name of the phantom in a gothic novel by French author Gaston Leroux (4) |
| PHANTOM | The Of The Opera, 1910 novel by French writer Gaston Leroux (7) |
| BING | "5,000 Nights at the Opera" author |
| GAY | "The Beggar's Opera "author |
| BARTH | "The Floating Opera" author |
| BRECHT | "The Threepenny Opera" writer Bertolt |
| VERDI | Some clever dick opera writer |
| WAGONER | Cart driver's "Ring" picked up by opera writer (7) |
| FELLOW | Chap declined opera writer's beginnings (6) |
| WHARTON | Edith a"; author whose novel The Age of Innocence was adapted into a film with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis 7:A::The Phantom of the -; Andrew Lloyd Webber musical based on a novel by Gaston |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| DAAE | Christine ___ (Songstress in Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera) |
| USE | I ___ antlers in all of my decorating (lyric from the Disney song Gaston) |
| BEAUTYANDTHE | ___ Beast, the 1992 Disney animated film that includes the characters Gaston and Lumiere (6,3,3) |
| LUKE | Actor who starred as Gaston in Disney's live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, - Evans (4) |
| HESNO | "___ monster, Gaston, you are!" (Beauty and the Beast) |
| BEAUTY | Disney fairy tale with Belle and Gaston, ___ and the Beast (6) |
| LEFOU | sidekick of bad guy Gaston |
