| THREEPENNY | 'The --- Opera', musical work by Weill and Brecht (10) |
| ALONEAGAIN | Musical work by Gilbert and Sullivan (5,5) |
| OPERA | The -, 1928 musical work by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill (10,5) |
| MACK | Written as part of Weill and Brecht's musical drama, The Threepenny Opera, was The Ballad Of ... The |
| POLLY | Macheath's wife in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical The Beggar's Opera (5,7) |
| PEACHUM | Macheath's wife in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical The Beggar's Opera (5,7) |
| PHANTOM | The ____ of the Opera, musical that premiered in 1986 and includes the song All I Ask of You (7) |
| MACKTHEKNIFE | Song by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, written for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera (4,3,5) |
| LOTTELENYA | Austrian-U.S. singer and actress noted for performing the songs of her first husband Kurt Weill (5,5) |
| IRA | Gershwin who wrote with Kern, Weill, and Arlen after his brother died |
| BEGGARSOPERA | 'The ---', 1728 musical work by Gay and Pepusch (7,5) |
| KURTS | Weill and Russell |
| LARKASCENDING | "The ___", 1914 musical work by Ralph Vaughan Williams based on a poem by George Meredith (4,9) |
| SCHEHERAZADE | 1888 musical work by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov based on the collection One Thousand and One Nights |
| POPGROUP | Youngster absorbs musical work by largely mature band |
| OPTED | Showed preference for musical work by Edward (5) |
| PRELUDE | When an opera's musical themes may be established |
| OVERTURE | Opera's musical introduction (8) |
| SYMPHONY | Musical work by, e.g., WR 7005 composer [No. 2 dedicated to 'King' 6001] (8) |
| OPERAS | Some musical works by Kaija Saariaho |
