| TURANDOT | ... and his last (unfinished) opera |
| GARYSHEFFIELD | Baseball player who hit his first home run at age 19 (Brewers, 1988) and his last at age 40 (Mets, 2 |
| HOSTESS | Hardy's first love and his last: Hardy heroine who's entertaining? (7) |
| RUSTY | With 35-Across, baseball player who hit his first home run at age 19 (Colt .45s, 1963) and his last |
| POE | Author and poet, 1809-1849, whose last (unfinished) work was live Light-House (3) |
| EDWINDROOD | Dickens's last unfinished novel (5,5) |
| CANTO | Any of 17 in Byron's "Don Juan" (the last unfinished) |
| AUDEN | Poet whose last unfinished collection Thank You, Fog was published posthumously in 1974 (5) |
| PRINCEIGOR | Unfinished opera by Alexander Borodin completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov (6 |
| BUSONI | Ferruccio ___, Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer and teacher whose works include the unfinished opera Doktor Faust |
| NORM | Bellini's unfinished opera is standard (4) |
| AID | Help with unfinished opera (3) |
| OFFENBACH | Composer of the unfinished opera The Tales of Hoffmann |
| NORMA | Old French provincial's unfinished opera |
| LULU | Berg's unfinished opera |
| IGOR | 'Prince ---', unfinished opera by Borodin (4) |
| BORODIN | Alexander, composer of unfinished opera Prince Igor (7) |
| PORE | New production of unfinished opera is opening (4) |
| POLYGAMIST | His third Test wicket came off the last ball of his 112th match, also his last. (4,6) |
| MUTTIAHMURALITHARAN | Sri Lankan bowler who took his 800th wicket with his final ball in his last Test match (7,12) |
