| LETTERING | Granted, Wagner's operas will have no opening for happy characters |
| PESARO | Rossini's birthplace, where operas will be restaged (6) |
| SMILEYS | Happy characters |
| NANOSECOND | For a very short time grandmother will have no support (10) |
| MONEYSPINNERS | Sadly many pensioners will have no answer for sources of income (5-8) |
| MONEYSPENDERS | Sadly many pensioners will have no answer for sources of income (5-8) |
| ANCHORS | Writers will have no charge for Latin as they read the news (7) |
| CUTNOICE | Blunt skates will have no effect |
| HELLO | The man will have no word of greeting |
| STIGMA | Pragmatist will have no part in disgraceful sign (6) |
| LOCKED | Dog's body will have no method of gaining entry, we hear (6) |
| BAYREUTH | Bavarian city famous for its annual festival of Wagner's operas (8) |
| SWEATERGIRLS | Opening for serious forecasters: no opening for hunky pin-ups (7,5) |
| WEISGALL | Hugo ___, composer of 1989 one-act opera Will You Marry Me? (8) |
| EDDA | Inspiration for Wagner's operas |
| NOSERING | Leading band, say, is familiar with Wagner's operas |
| INTERRING | Getting buried amongst Wagner's operas? |
| VALKYRIES | Prelude in the second of Wagner's operas that make up the Ring cycle (4,2,3,9) |
| RIDEOFTHE | Prelude in the second of Wagner's operas that make up the Ring cycle (4,2,3,9) |
| PROTEM | Professional side with no opening for amateur in it, for the time being (3,3) |
