| LEONCAVALLO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci |
| RUGGIERO | Italian composer of operas including 1892's I Pagliacci (8,11) |
| ROSSINI | Gioachino ___, Italian composer of operas including The Barber of Seville (1816) (7) |
| VERDI | Giuseppe ___ (1813-1901), Italian composer of operas including Rigoletto (5) |
| MASSENET | Jules ___, French composer of operas including Manon (1884) |
| HALEVY | Fromental ___, French composer of operas including L'Artisan (1827) |
| AIRING | Broadcasting a set of operas, including Idomeneo at first (6) |
| CIMAROSA | Italian composer of over eighty operas, including Il matrimonio segreto |
| PUCCINI | Stealing church organ parts to buy cigarettes in his youth, a composer of 12 operas, including Madama Butterfly and Tosca, who became the richest musician of his era (7) |
| MEYERBEER | Jewish composer of many operas including 'Les Huguenots ' (1791-1864) |
| DAPONTE | Lorenzo - -; musician born Emanuele Conegliano who wrote the libretti for three of Mozart's operas including The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (2,5) |
| NEDDA | Character in "I, Pagliacci" |
| CANIO | I Pagliacci tenor role |
| CAVALLERIARUSTICANA | Frequent companion opera to I Pagliacci (10,9) |
| BELLINI | Italian composer of operas |
| BUSONI | Ferruccio ___, Italian composer of operas Die Brautwahl and Arlecchino (6) |
| SALIERI | Antonio ?, Italian composer of operas Falstaff and Tarare (7) |
| GIORDANO | Umberto -, Italian composer of operas Andrea Chenier and Fedora (8) |
| RESPIGHI | Ottorino -, Italian composer of operas Maria Egiziaca and Semirama (8) |
| GIUSEPPEVERDI | An Italian composer of operas (8,5) |
