| NABUCCO | Giuseppe Verdi opera composed in 1841 whose title character is king of Babylon (7) |
| ARAGORN | Tolkien character is king in region around Zaragoza (7) |
| SAUL | Mandy Patinkin's Homeland character is king in Old Testament (4) |
| GISELLE | Peasant girl in the title of a ballet first performed in 1841 (7) |
| SOPRANI | Italian singers in operas composed with no end of style (7) |
| KNOWALL | Clever clogs is King of Berlin since 1989? (4-3) |
| NUBBLES | Friend of Nell Trent in 1841 novel The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens (3,7) |
| GARDENS | Hanging ___ of Babylon (creation of King Nebuchadnezzar, for his wife, on the east bank of the Euphr |
| FIDELIO | The only opera composed by Beethoven (7) |
| ROSSSEA | Hosting around 240,000 emperor penguins, body of water discovered by an Antarctic explorer in 1841 w |
| MORISOT | Berthe, Impressionist painter born in 1841 noted for showing women's domestic lives (7) |
| STKILDA | Suburb of Melbourne, named after a schooner which moored there in 1841 (2,5) |
| HANGING | Leaving shot game dangling in the Gardens of Babylon (7) |
| WONDERS | The Hanging Gardens of Babylon et al. (7) |
| ABEDNEGO | In the Book of Daniel, one of three men thrown into a fiery pit for refusing to bow to an image of the king of Babylon (8) |
| HAMMURABI | King of Babylon who became the first king of the Babylonian Empire following the abdication of his father, Sin-Muballit |
| NABONIDUS | Last native king of Babylon, overthrown by Cyrus the Great of Persia in 539 BC (9) |
| TITO | and 4ac, Italian baritone who produced and played the title role in Giuseppe Verdi opera Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1965 (4,5) |
| GOBBI | and 4ac, Italian baritone who produced and played the title role in Giuseppe Verdi opera Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, in 1965 (4,5) |
| BELSHAZZAR | Last king of Babylon before its capture by Cyrus in 539 BC |
