| FAINTHEART | What never won fair lady, according to the Gilbert %26 Sullivan's song in the musical Patience (5,5) |
| FAINT | ___ heart never won fair lady (5) |
| MIKADO | Kim returns with a lot of fuss to the Gilbert and Sullivan musical (6) |
| MERRIMENT | Gilbert and Sullivan's song A More Humane Mikado has many references to "innocent ____" |
| PALINDROME | What's never odd or even in random pile, possibly? |
| SAVOYOPERA | Any of the Gilbert and Sullivan works originally presented by the D'Oyly Carte company |
| THEPIRATES | Gilbert %26 Sullivan operetta, ... Of Penzance (3,7) |
| WHATABEAUTIFULMORNING | Oh ____ is the unabbreviated name for the first song in the musical Oklahoma! |
| YORKTOWN | Song in the musical 'Hamilton' recounting the final battle of the American Revolutionary War (8) |
| MEMORY | Song in the musical Cats sung by the character Grizabella with lyrics by Trevor Nunn (6) |
| THEMIKADO | Gilbert %26 Sullivan's comic opera set in Japan (3,6) |
| TRUTH | According to Robert Browning, what never hurts the teller? (5) |
| NEER | "Faint heart ___ won fair lady" |
| NEVER | Faint heart won fair lady |
| NEOPHOBIA | What never affected performances of The New Seekers or The Modern Lovers? (9) |
| RUST | In an advertising slogan borrowed for the title of a 1979 Neil Young album, what never sleeps? (4) |
| ALONG | On the edge of what's never a short trip to Roscrea (5) |
| POOHBAH | The Lord-High-Everything-Else in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado (4-3) |
| KIRIBATI | Independent republic in the Pacific comprising 33 islands including Banaba , the Gilbert and Phoenix Islands, and eight of the Line Islands |
| TARAWA | Coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands in the westcentral Pacific Ocean; location of Bairiki, the administrative centre of Kiribati (6) |
