| LESDARCY | Boxer in Raffaele Marcellino's opera, which premiered in 2001 at the Ten Days on the Island Festival |
| ENEMY | Jude Law war film from 2001, ...at the Gates (5) |
| SDS | Campus protest org. that led the Ten Days of Resistance |
| ASCENSIONTIDE | The ten days leading up to Whitsun Eve |
| DAYSOFOURLIVES | The entire cast of this soap opera, which premiered in 1965, were released from their contracts earlier this month, prompting fears of cancellation |
| RIGOLETTO | Verdi opera which premiered in Venice in 1851 (9) |
| ALMIRE | Handel's first opera, which premiered in 1705 (6) |
| YOUNGCORBETT | Name adopted by the world featherweight boxing champions born William H Rothwell and Raffaele Giordano |
| LADYJANEGREY | The ten day queen (4,4,4) |
| EXPECTATIONWEEK | The 10 days between Ascension Day and Whitsunday (11,4) |
| MONZA | 2022-23 Serie A club coached by Giovanni Stroppa and Raffaele Palladino (5) |
| PALLADINO | Raffaele ......... , 2007-09 Italy and 2004-08 Juventus winger (9) |
| THEGONDOLIERS | Gilbert & Sullivan opera which premiered at the Savoy Theatre in 1889 (3,10) |
| MARKINGTIME | Checking off the days on the calendar in the cell? (7,4) |
| LOOKBACKINANGER | Award-winning play by John Osborne which premiered in London in 1956; moving on to Broadway the following year (4,4,2,5) |
| BERIO | Luciano ___, Italian composer of opera Un re in ascolto which premiered in 1984 (5) |
| ARABELLA | A lyric comedy or opera in three acts by Richard Strauss, which premiered in 1933 (8) |
| TRISTAN | Romantic opera by Richard Wagner which premiered in Munich in 1865, ... And Isolde |
| BLUEDANUBE | The ?, common title of a waltz by Johann Strauss the Younger, Op 314, which premiered in 1867 |
| CIRCLE | The Caucasian Chalk _, Bertolt Brecht play which premiered in Minnesota in 1948 (6) |
