| SMETANA | Czech composer of the 1868 opera Dalibor (7) |
| WILKIECOLLINS | Author of the 1868 novel The Moonstone (6,7) |
| ALCOTT | Author of the 1868 novel Little Women, Louisa May _ (6) |
| JANACEK | Leo, Czech composer of the opera The Cunning Little Vixen (7) |
| DVORAK | Antonin ___, Czech composer of the opera Rusalka (6) |
| BEDRICH | Czech composer whose works include the 1866 opera The Bartered Bride (7,7) |
| FRIML | Rudolf, Czech composer of the musical play Rose Marie (5) |
| BEDRICHSMETANA | Czech composer of works including the operas The Bartered Bride (1866) and The Devil's Wall (1882) (7,7) |
| RUSALKA | Opera by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak about a water nymph (7) |
| BOITO | Arrigo ___, Italian composer of 1868 opera Mefistofele (5) |
| ANTONIN | And 39 Czech composer who wrote the New World Symphony in 1893 (7.6) |
| MAVLAST | Czech composer Bedrich Smetana's magnum opus whose title means "My Homeland" |
| MARTINU | Bohuslav —, Czech composer |
| ANTONINDVORAK | Czech composer of works including 1893's Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World) (7,6) |
| PINKY | Puppet pig, companion of Perky, created by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor (5) |
| PERKY | Puppet pig, companion of Pinky, created by Jan and Vlasta Dalibor (5) |
| DAKOTA | Territory affected by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie |
| OPERAHOUSES | The 1868 Republican convention in Chicago and the 1872 Democratic convention in Baltimore were held in these posh venues |
| IAMB | Dalibor initially ascended mountain by foot |
| IDIOT | "The ...", 1868 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky (5) |
