| CARMELA | Soprano who listened to (but didn't sing) "Con Te Partiro" |
| ANDREA | _ Bocelli, Italian tenor best known for the 1995 single 'Con te partiro' (6) |
| LEFTINTHEAIR | Wouldn't give a decision to but didn't allow to land |
| MOSES | Figure who listened to a burning bush |
| COCKAHOOP | Excited spaniel who listened to papa |
| MACBETH | King of Scotland who listened to witches? (7) |
| BEHEAD | Not right to be listened to, but take top off (6) |
| UNHEARD | Not listened to but United Nations hear five hundred Romans (7) |
| CELINE | Dion who didn't sing with the Belmonts |
| ASIA | They didn't sing "Africa" - that was Toto |
| MULAN | First Disney Princess who was not a princess and didn't sing about her love for a hero |
| ENLISTED | Those who listened got a raw turn when they volunteered (8) |
| TONY | Soprano who's unlikely to sing? |
| EWING | Maria, mezzo-soprano who was married to the director Peter Hall from 1982 to 1990 (5) |
| MELBA | Soprano who gave her name to a fruit dessert |
| BEVERLYSILLS | Brooklyn-born soprano who went on to chair Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera: 2 wds. |
| PATTI | Born in Spain to Italian opera singers, a soprano who resided in the Brecon Beacons in a castle she named Craig-y-Nos (Rock of the Night) (5) |
| FRENI | Mirella ___, Italian soprano who was married for many years to the Bulgarian bass Nicolai Ghiaurov |
| SILLS | "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." She was an American operatic soprano who won international fame many years before her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1975, at a |
| BUMBRY | Grace, late U.S. mezzo soprano who was the first black singer to perform at the Paris Opera (6) |
