| THETHIEVING | & 17D 1817 opera by Gioachino Rossini after a comedy by d'Aubigny and Caigniez (3,8,6) |
| PYTHON | Programming language named after a comedy troupe named after a snake |
| SEVILLE | Setting of a play by French polymath Pierre Beaumarchais and subsequent opera by Gioachino Rossini, the capital of Andalusia (7) |
| THEBARBER | And 2 1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini subtitled The Useless Precaution (3,6,2,7) |
| OFSEVILLE | 1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini subtitled The Useless Precaution (3,6,2,7) |
| ILLADRO | L'occasione fa - -; opera by Gioachino Rossini (2,5) |
| TANCREDI | 1813 opera by Gioachino Rossini (8) |
| THEBARBEROFSEVILLE | 1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini subtitled The Useless Precaution |
| ZELMIRA | 1822 opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola |
| MAGPIE | The Thieving ___, 1817 opera by Giaochino Rossini (6) |
| THIEVING | 'The ---', 1817 opera by Rossini (8,6) |
| DANDINI | Valet of Prince Ramiro in 1817 Gioachino Rossini opera La Cenerentola (7) |
| BELCANTO | 'Beautiful singing' in opera, as pioneered in the works of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti etc. (3,5) |
| GUILLAUME | Gioachino Rossini opera first performed in 1829 (9,4) |
| OPERA | Composition by Ethel Smyth or Gioachino Rossini |
| WELLS | Trelawny of the --, a comedy by Pinero (5) |
| BLITHESPIRIT | 1945 film based on a comedy by Noel Coward (6,6) |
| PRIVATELIVES | A comedy by Noel Coward first performed in 1930 (7,5) |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino -; composer of operas including The Barber of Seville and William Tell (7) |
| ITALIAN | Gioachino Greco or Sonia Gandhi, originally |
