| LEATHERING | Punishment for having mead before opera cycle (10) |
| COMIC | Word before opera or relief |
| SOAP | Word before opera or dish |
| LASCALA | Soprano switching parts before opera's end in opera venue |
| PALESTRINA | Most unimpressive opera cycle left incomplete by a composer |
| GATHERING | Content to leave Glinka opera cycle for a party (9) |
| HORNED | The origins of What enduring but false stereotype can be traced to costume designs for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle productions of the 1870s? (6,6,7) |
| HELMETS | The origins of What enduring but false stereotype can be traced to costume designs for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle productions of the 1870s? (6,6,7) |
| VIKING | The origins of What enduring but false stereotype can be traced to costume designs for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen opera cycle productions of the 1870s? (6,6,7) |
| TURANDOT | Opera cycle containing a bit associated with Morse |
| THERING | Opera cycle by Richard Wagner (3,4) |
| TETHERING | Restraining tenor, English, on opera cycle (9) |
| RING | Which famous opera cycle includes Das Rheingold and Gotterdammerung ? (4) |
| DES | Der Ring ___ Nibelungen, Wagner opera cycle (3) |
| RICHARDWAGNER | German composer of the epic four-opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung in the 1860s and 1870s (7,6) |
| MIDDLEAGED | 'Gilded Mead' brewed for 40-60 years? (6-4) |
| REDEEMABLE | Mead and beer drunk with the French, like 6 (10) |
| BOULDERDAM | Its construction created Lake Mead |
| MISSMARPLE | Agatha Christie's detective resident in St Mary Mead (4,6) |
| MIDDLEEAST | Mead listed as delivered to part of the world |
