| BARTOK | Hungarian composer whose only opera was entitled Bluebeard's Castle (6) |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy ___, Hungarian composer whose only opera, Le Grand Macabre, premiered in 1978 (6) |
| BELABARTOK | Hungarian composer whose only completed opera is 1918's Bluebeard's Castle (4,6) |
| ZOLTAN | Hungarian composer whose works include Hary Janos (6,6) |
| KODALY | Hungarian composer whose works include Hary Janos (6,6) |
| THEWHO | Group whose rock opera was once performed at the Met |
| EARNED | Was entitled to what was worked for |
| REGINA | Boudicca, as she was entitled to be addressed by ancient Romans? (6) |
| FRENCH | The language in which the novel of The Phantom of the Opera was written (6) |
| ISOLDE | Part of opera was created earlier we hear |
| PIRACY | Bluebeard's vocation made him sanctimonious and risque (6) |
| CASTLE | Bluebeard's home neat? Yes, finally, for the first time (6) |
| PIRATE | Talk about the island of Bluebeard, for example (6) |
| FATIMA | Bluebeard's last wife (6) |
| BELA | Hungarian composer of the opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (4,6) |
| LANDRU | French Bluebeard |
| GERALDDURRELL | British naturalist and author whose first book was entitled The Overloaded Ark (6,7) |
| OPERA | Old country reduced area for Bluebeard's Castle, for example (5) |
| DALLAPICCOLA | Luigi ___, Italian composer whose final opera was Ulisse to his own libretto, completed in 1968 |
| ROSSINI | Which composer's last opera was William Tell? (7) |
