| BARTOK | Bela, Hungarian composer of the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (6) |
| BELA | Hungarian composer of the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (4,6) |
| BELABARTOK | Hungarian composer and pianist noted for his opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (4,6) |
| KODALY | Hungarian composer of the 1933 orchestral work Dances of Galanta (6) |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy, Hungarian composer of opera Le Grand Macabre (6) |
| LUGOSI | Bela, Hungarian-born US actor noted for his portrayal of the title character in the 1931 film Dracula (6) |
| PIRATE | Talk about the island of Bluebeard, for example (6) |
| GLINKA | Mikhail, Russian composer of the opera A Life for the Tsar (6) |
| CASTLE | Bluebeard's home neat? Yes, finally, for the first time (6) |
| FATIMA | A Roman Catholic shrine to the last wife of Bluebeard |
| WALTON | William, British composer of the opera Troilus and Cressida (6) |
| HALEVY | Jacques, French composer of the opera La Juive (6) |
| KRENEK | Ernst, 20th Century Vienna-born composer of the opera Jonny spielt auf (6) |
| GOUNOD | Composer of the opera Faust (1859) (6) |
| GRUBER | H K, Austrian composer of the opera Gloria von Jaxtberg (6) |
| FLOTOW | Friedrich von --, German composer of the opera 'Martha' (6) |
| WAGNER | Richard, 19th-century German composer of the opera Parsifal (6) |
| DELIUS | Frederick, British composer of the opera Koanga (6) |
| RAMEAU | Jean-Philippe, French composer of the opera Hippolyte Et Aricie (6) |
| GEORGE | Composer of the opera Porgy And Bess (6) |
