| MIKADO | Kim returns with a lot of fuss to the Gilbert and Sullivan musical (6) |
| NANKIPOO | Son of the Mikado in the Gilbert and Sullivan musical (5 3) |
| FAINTHEART | What never won fair lady, according to the Gilbert %26 Sullivan's song in the musical Patience (5,5) |
| ADO | Fuss, to the Bard |
| DELVE | Ed returns with a lot of love, just to do the digging (5) |
| OPERETTAS | Gilbert & Sullivan musicals |
| SLAPBANG | All at once, friends, return with a lot of noise (4-4) |
| YUMYUM | Young ward of Ko-Ko in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado (3-3) |
| TUVALU | Polynesian country that formed part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1916 to 1976 (6) |
| FURORE | Eccentric four about to make a lot of fuss (6) |
| TEACUP | Storm in a , a lot of fuss over nothing (6) |
| TARAWA | Coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands in the westcentral Pacific Ocean; location of Bairiki, the administrative centre of Kiribati (6) |
| ADORES | Loves fuss to do with society (6) |
| POOHBAH | The Lord-High-Everything-Else in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado (4-3) |
| SAVOYOPERA | Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D'Oyly Carte company |
| TORNADO | To the Royal Navy a lot of fuss is a big blow |
| STREPHON | The Arcadian shepherd in the Gilbert & Sullivan operetta Iolanthe (8) |
| MELISSA | Lady Blanche's daughter in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera 'Princess Ida' (7) |
| KIRIBATI | Independent republic in the Pacific comprising 33 islands including Banaba , the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands, and eight of the Line Islands |
| MUCHADO | A lot of fuss, according to the Bard (4,3) |
