| PRINCEIGOR | Opera in four acts by Alexander Borodin, left unfinished when he died in 1887 (6,4) |
| LIND | Jenny, Swedish soprano who died in 1887 (4) |
| VERSAILLES | Poetry unfinished when allies negotiated a peace treaty (10) |
| LEAF | Page abandoned unfinished when penning article |
| AIDA | Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, first performed in Cairo in 1871 (4) |
| LABOHEME | Opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, set in Paris around 1830 (2,6) |
| ILTROVATORE | Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, set in Spain (2,9) |
| OFFIGARO | The --- --- ---, comic opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8,2,6) |
| MARRIAGE | The --- --- ---, comic opera in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (8,2,6) |
| FIGARO | The Marriage Of _, comic opera in four acts by Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (6) |
| CARMEN | Opera in four acts by Georges Bizet, featuring the Habanera and the Toreador Song (6) |
| UNCLEVANYA | Play subtitled "Scenes From Country Life in Four Acts" |
| METHUSELAH | Old Testament patriarch (very old when he died!) (10) |
| ANNACHRISTIE | 1921 play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill (4,8) |
| ASTOR | He was America's richest person when he died in 1848 |
| OPERASERIA | Four-act 18th-century musical drama |
| SEAGULL | The -; comedy in four acts by dramatist Anton Chekhov (7) |
| GETTY | Wealthiest man in the world when he died in 1976 |
| STAVROS | _ Niarchos, Greek shipping magnate who was worth $12bn when he died in 1996 (7) |
| SOANE | Architect noted for the original Bank of England whose home was preserved as a museum when he died in 1837 (5) |
