| TURANDOT | Puccini's last opera, left unfinished at his death |
| PRINCEIGOR | An opera left unfinished by Borodin and completed by Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov |
| WEIROFHERMISTON | Last novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, left unfinished at his death in 1894 (4,2,9) |
| AENEID | Virgil's epic poem, left unfinished at his death in 19 BC (6) |
| TOSCALE | Woman in an opera left halfway through (1:50, say) (2,5) |
| NORMAL | Standard opera left (6) |
| PUCCINI | Composer, born 1858, whose last opera, Turandot, was unfinished at his death in 1924 (7) |
| PLINY | Either of two Roman scholars; the elder's Naturalis Historia was unfinished at his death in 79 AD |
| EDWINDROOD | The Mystery Of - - - - - -, Charles Dickens's last novel, left unfinished at the time of his death (5,5) |
| REQUIEMMASS | *Composition that Mozart left unfinished at the time of his death (Jane Austen) |
| NOTICED | Left unfinished at the patisserie, one observed (7) |
| AGE | 969, for Methuselah at his death |
| KINGARTHUR | In legend, who was transported to Avalon at his death? (4,6) |
| THELASTTYCOON | F. Scott FitzGerald's final novel, unfinished at the time of his death in 1940 (3,4,6) |
| PORTAL | Left the beer unfinished, at the entrance |
| ASTOR | At his death in 1848, he was the richest person in the U.S. |
| VERDI | "Falstaff" was his last opera |
| BEEFIEST | Strongest beer unfinished at short fiesta (8) |
| SPECTATE | Watch ham going unfinished at gallery's opening |
| LIBRETTI | Words for operas left one with Britten, endlessly struggling (8) |
