| ISBORN | Christmas opera by Herrmann (1,5,2,4) |
| ACHILD | Christmas opera by Herrmann (1,5,2,4) |
| CHEREVICHKI | Christmas opera by Tchaikovsky (11) |
| ELNINO | Christmas opera by Adams (2,4) |
| LABOHEME | Christmas opera (for a while) by Puccini (2,6) |
| OSCAR | Award won by Bernard Herrmann and Henry Mancini |
| AMAHL | Hero of Menotti's Christmas opera |
| EDWARDS | Norton and Herrmann |
| CHRISTOPHER | ___ Herrmann; role on "Chicago Fire" |
| EIGENBERG | Christopher Herrmann in Chicago Fire (surname) (9) |
| MENOTTI | Gian Carlo ___, composer of the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| CHRISTMASEVE | Opera by Rimsky-Korsakov after a story by Gogol (9,3) |
| MANONLESCAUT | Opera by Giacomo Puccini first performed in 1893 based on a novel by the Abbe Prevost |
| OWENWINGRAVE | Opera by Benjamin Britten based on a work by Henry James (4,8) |
| EUGENEONEGIN | 1833 'novel in verse' by Russian author Alexander Pushkin adapted into an opera by Tchaikovsky in 1879 (6,6) |
| MOSESINEGYPT | 1818 opera by Rossini (5,2,5) |
| COSIFANTUTTE | 1790 opera by Mozart (4,3,5) |
| BEGGARSOPERA | "The ... ...", 1728 ballad-opera by John Gay (7,5) |
| NIXONINCHINA | 1987 opera by John Adams (5,2,5) |
| PORGYANDBESS | 1935 opera by George Gershwin (5,3,4) |
