| CHEREVICHKI | Christmas opera by Tchaikovsky (11) |
| ISBORN | Christmas opera by Herrmann (1,5,2,4) |
| ACHILD | Christmas opera by Herrmann (1,5,2,4) |
| ELNINO | Christmas opera by Adams (2,4) |
| EUGENONEGIN | Which three-act opera by Tchaikovsky was based on a poem by Pushkin and premiered in Moscow on March |
| EUGENEONEGIN | 1833 'novel in verse' by Russian author Alexander Pushkin adapted into an opera by Tchaikovsky in 1879 (6,6) |
| QUEENOFSPADES | 'The ---', 1890 opera by Tchaikovsky based on a novel by Pushkin (5,2,6) |
| EUGENE | - Onegin, opera by Tchaikovsky |
| SPADES | 'The Queen of ---', opera by Tchaikovsky (6) |
| ONEGIN | 'Eugene --', opera by Tchaikovsky (6) |
| LABOHEME | Christmas opera (for a while) by Puccini (2,6) |
| AMAHL | Hero of Menotti's Christmas opera |
| MENOTTI | Gian Carlo ___, composer of the classic Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors |
| THEQUEENOFSPADES | Opera in three acts by Tchaikovsky based on a short story of the same name by Alexander Pushkin |
| SWANLAKE | A ballet composed by Tchaikovsky, premiered by the Bolshoi Ballet in 1877 (4,4) |
| HOFFMANN | E T A ___, German Romantic author whose stories form the basis of an Offenbach opera and ballets by Tchaikovsky and Delibes |
| MANFRED | Dramatic play by Lord Byron that inspired compositions by Tchaikovsky and Schumann (7) |
| TOYS | Small hand-held novelty trifles which most children expect to find wrapped under a Christmas tree, famously depicted in the form of tin soldiers and mechanical dolls in The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky ( |
| THENUTCRACKER | Ballet with music by Tchaikovsky (3,10) |
| NUTCRACKER | The -, ballet by Tchaikovsky |
