| THEFLYINGDUTCHMAN | 1843 opera by Richard Wagner inspired by a sea crossing from Riga to London (3,6,8) |
| LATVIAN | Meet him/her on a train from Riga to Jelgava (7) |
| EXOD | Bible bk. with a sea crossing |
| FLYING | 'The ---', 1843 opera by Richard Wagner (6) |
| DUTCHMAN | 'The ---', 1843 opera by Richard Wagner (8) |
| BOSPHORUS | British sailor heading for port - hours at sea crossing from Europe to Asia (9) |
| CRAIG | From Calais and Riga to island in Scotland (5,5) |
| AILSA | From Calais and Riga to island in Scotland (5,5) |
| AGITATOR | He stirs up trouble at Riga, to be sorted out (8) |
| TRISTANUND | Opera by Richard Wagner largely based on a romance by Gottfried von Strassburg (7,3,6) |
| RIENZI | Opera by Richard Wagner based on a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (6) |
| ISOLDE | Tristan und ___, opera by Richard Wagner largely based on a romance by Gottfried von Strassburg |
| LOHENGRIN | 1850 opera by Richard Wagner about a son of Parzival (9) |
| CYCLONE | Word, coined by a sea captain and thought to derive from the Greek for "wheel, coil of a snake", for a system of winds spiralling inwards (7) |
| TRISTAN | Romantic opera by Richard Wagner which premiered in Munich in 1865, ... And Isolde |
| IRELAND | It's separated from Iceland by a sea (and a "c"!) |
| BOHEMIAN | 'The --...' , 1843 opera by Michael Balfe featuring the characters Arline and Devilshoof (8) |
| GIRL | 'The --...' , 1843 opera by Michael Balfe featuring the characters Arline and Devilshoof (4) |
| DASRHEINGOLD | 1869 opera by Richard Wagner (3,9) |
| DAS | 1869 opera by Richard Wagner (3) |
