| TELL | Heir No. 2 to recount Rossini opera (7,4) |
| WILLIAM | Heir No. 2 to recount Rossini opera (7,4) |
| WILLIAMTELL | Swiss folk hero and subject of a Rossini opera |
| WASHERDRYER | *Appliance combination that can be stacked (2 to 4, 8 to 10) |
| DOUBLEBOGEY | +2, to Fred Couples |
| CURSEDCHILD | *Broadway's "Harry Potter and the ___" (... 2 to 8) |
| PLANTAGENET | Member of English royal house from Henry II to Richard III (11) |
| ISAW | "No need to recount it to me" |
| MAGINOTLINE | Fortification built before World War II to protect France's eastern border (7,4) |
| RACONTEUR | Artist to recount strange anecdotes? (9) |
| THEBELL | Fellow with book coming in to recount Iris Murdoch story |
| NARRATE | Rushed up with speed to recount events (7) |
| UNTO | Until seen to recount once inside |
| MIRABILEDICTU | Marvellous to recount — narrator's apostrophe, eg Aen. 1.439 |
| TANCREDI | 2-act Rossini opera set on Sicily (8) |
| THEBARBER | Gioacchino Rossini opera first performed in 1816 (3,6,2,7) |
| OFSEVILLE | Gioacchino Rossini opera first performed in 1816 (3,6,2,7) |
| OTELLO | Love Rossini opera character and love Verdi opera character (6) |
| BARBEROF | See fibber solve real tangle in Rossini opera (6,2,7) |
| SEVILLE | See fibber solve real tangle in Rossini opera (6,2,7) |
