| MAGPIE | Rossini opera composed in 1817, The Thieving _ (6) |
| GEORGIANMANOR | Built in 1817, 'The Grange' is a historic Toronto ___ ___ now part of the Art Gallery of Ontario |
| LIGHTFINGERED | Thieving ___ like an accomplished pianist? (5-8) |
| NERONE | Mascagni opera composed in Mussolini's honor |
| CINESI | Le ___, opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck (6) |
| AUSTEN | Jane, English novelist who was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 (6) |
| SHANKS | British manufacturer of bathroom fixtures that developed from a company founded in Staffordshire in 1817 (8,6) |
| FIGARO | Barber in Rossini opera (6) |
| BARBER | Rossini opera, The - of Seville (6) |
| OTELLO | Love Rossini opera character and love Verdi opera character (6) |
| DIDOANDAENEAS | Purcell opera composed in 1689 (4,3,6) |
| NABUCCO | Giuseppe Verdi opera composed in 1841 whose title character is king of Babylon |
| ESPERANTO | Ten operas composed in largely unknown language (9) |
| DANDINI | Valet of Prince Ramiro in 1817 Gioachino Rossini opera La Cenerentola (7) |
| GREATBELZONI | In 1817, this collector of antiquities and explorer first set foot inside the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings, where he discovered Seti's sarcophagus. He was known by many epithets, but the |
| LACENERENTOLA | Opera by Rossini first produced in Rome in 1817 (2,11) |
| ROSSINI | Son of a town trumpeter who became one of the main proponents of bel canto; his best-known operas include William Tell, The Thieving Magpie and The Barber of Seville (7) |
| PASTORALE | Instrumental work in last opera composed (9) |
| BESS | Female character in an opera composed by George Gershwin (4) |
| AIDA | Opera composed by Verdi in 1871 (4) |
