| Hole that's not filled | 26 |
| Held the first performance | 26 |
| Got ready for transactions | 26 |
| Allowing for contingencies | 26 |
| Word with bottle or season | 26 |
| Feature of some corkscrews | 26 |
| Gift giver's prompting | 26 |
| Urging at a birthday party | 26 |
| Gift-giver's prompting | 26 |
| Unrestricted trading areas | 26 |
| Like loft space, typically | 26 |
| Floor layout without walls | 26 |
| Begins admitting customers | 26 |
| Starts, as a game of poker | 26 |
| Admits the first customers | 26 |
| It's beyond the harbor | 26 |
| Ali Baba's magic words | 26 |
| Arabian Nights catchphrase | 26 |
| Results of some labor laws | 26 |
| Speaks freely and candidly | 26 |
| "___ the public" | 26 |
| Not dismissing out of hand | 26 |
| Like much summery footwear | 26 |
| Lose one's inhibitions | 26 |
| Demand from a door pounder | 26 |
| Switchboard worker (abbr.) | 26 |
| Letters under TUV, perhaps | 26 |
| Passion of a noted phantom | 26 |
| "Fidelio" is one | 26 |
| Venue for Moffo or a buffo | 26 |
| Place to take your glasses | 26 |
| Palais Garnier performance | 26 |
| Covent Garden presentation | 26 |
| "Tosca," for one | 26 |
| "Thaïs," e.g. | 26 |
| "Norma," for one | 26 |
| "Nabucco" is one | 26 |
| "Faust," for one | 26 |
| Place to see tall headgear | 26 |
| One may be seen from a box | 26 |
| Leonie Rysanek's field | 26 |
| Haunt of a certain phantom | 26 |
| Giacomo Puccini's work | 26 |
| Bolshoi Theatre production | 26 |
| Barry McCauley's forte | 26 |
| "Wozzeck" is one | 26 |
| "Tommy," for one | 26 |
| "Parsifal," e.g. | 26 |
| "Manon," for one | 26 |
| "Idomeneo," e.g. | 26 |
| "Falstaff," e.g. | 26 |
| "Carmen" for one | 26 |
| Teatro San Carlo offerings | 26 |
| High-culture entertainment | 26 |
| Covent Garden performances | 26 |
| Carmen and Rigoletto | 26 |
| Jessye Norman, for example | 26 |
| Headliner with a big voice | 26 |
| Emulate Christiaan Barnard | 26 |
| Responder to O on the dial | 26 |
| ___ citato, footnote words | 26 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan genre | 26 |
| "Iolanthe," e.g. | 26 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan works | 26 |
| Unlatches a door, in poesy | 26 |
| Hamlet's love interest | 26 |
| Aunt Bee's grandnephew | 26 |
| Taylor boy, in 60's TV | 26 |
| Swing era bandleader Cates | 26 |
| Pupil of Miss Crump, on TV | 26 |
| English historical painter | 26 |
| Andy's son in Mayberry | 26 |
| Andy Griffith's TV son | 26 |
| Put in one's two cents | 26 |
| Make one's views known | 26 |
| Conjecture (about a tree?) | 26 |
| Gives two-cents' worth | 26 |
| Yves St. Laurent fragrance | 26 |
| Sherlock Holmes's drug | 26 |
| They play dead really well | 26 |
| 1991 Naughty by Nature hit | 26 |
| Right to left, e.g.: Abbr. | 26 |
| Abbr. in street directions | 26 |
| Big and small, e.g.: Abbr. | 26 |
| Producer, actress and host | 26 |
| Daily TV staple since 1986 | 26 |
| Chicago-based TV talk show | 26 |
| Chicago-based daytime host | 26 |
| Chair of Harpo Productions | 26 |
| Word after "Ole" | 26 |
| Nashville venue, for short | 26 |
| Nashville site, familiarly | 26 |
| Special __: military force | 26 |
| Word with special or photo | 26 |
| Special ___ (milit. force) | 26 |
| Photo __ (campaign events) | 26 |
| Roman goddess of abundance | 26 |
| Photo __: publicity events | 26 |
| Favorable times, for short | 26 |
| Coin-__ (vending machines) | 26 |