| Text | Length |
| Collapsible topper | 18 |
| Topper for the Met | 18 |
| Tall silk topper | 16 |
| Met wear, perhaps | 17 |
| Collapsible lid | 15 |
| Collapsible chapeau | 19 |
| Silk toppers | 12 |
| Collapsible items | 17 |
| Part of an equation | 19 |
| Equation quantity | 17 |
| Divisor, e.g. | 13 |
| Donizetti works | 15 |
| Met productions | 15 |
| Wagner works | 12 |
| Musical dramas | 14 |
| La Scala shows | 14 |
| Puccini products | 16 |
| Puccini productions | 19 |
| Met requirements? | 17 |
| La Scala offerings | 18 |
| Verdi output | 12 |
| Verdi creations | 15 |
| Puccini works | 13 |
| Price venues | 12 |
| Musical shows | 13 |
| Met offerings | 13 |
| Gluck products | 14 |
| Bellini creations | 17 |
| Zarzuelas, e.g. | 15 |
| Sutherland vehicles | 19 |
| Some musical shows | 18 |
| Some Mozart art | 15 |
| Soaper shows | 12 |
| Shows at the Met | 16 |
| Salieri works | 13 |
| Sacchini creations | 18 |
| Ring components | 15 |
| Puccini specialties | 19 |
| Musical productions | 19 |
| Met performances | 16 |
| Leitmotif settings | 18 |
| La Scala stagings | 17 |
| Gluck's output | 18 |
| Gluck creations | 15 |
| Bizet offerings | 15 |
| 22 Mozart works | 15 |
| Mid-1700s genre | 15 |
| Many a Handel work | 18 |
| Norman or Nilsson | 17 |
| La Scala diva | 13 |
| Callas or Sills | 15 |
| Be at the controls | 18 |
| Run, as a business | 18 |
| Wield a scalpel | 15 |
| Manage or run | 13 |
| Go in, so to speak | 18 |
| Fix an organ, maybe | 19 |
| Emulate the Mayos | 17 |
| Emulate a b.t.o. | 16 |
| Employ a trocar | 15 |
| Do surgery (on) | 15 |
| Do a hip job, say? | 18 |
| Runs, as a business | 19 |
| Manages; runs | 13 |
| Zero personality? | 17 |
| Smooth player | 13 |
| Tomlin as Ernestine | 19 |
| Switchboard worker | 18 |
| Sprint figure? | 14 |
| Someone to dial | 15 |
| Smooth worker | 13 |
| Shady business man | 18 |
| Part of B.T.O. | 14 |
| O, on a telephone | 17 |
| Numbers person? | 15 |
| Number finder | 13 |
| AT&T employee | 17 |
| A ham is one | 12 |
| 1972 Jim Croce song | 19 |
| Part of op. cit. | 16 |
| Lehár specialty | 18 |
| Friml's forte | 17 |
| Comic musical work | 18 |
| Victor Herbert work | 19 |
| Victor Herbert opus | 19 |
| Sweethearts e.g. | 17 |
| Romberg's forte | 19 |
| Romberg product | 15 |
| Patter song genre | 17 |
| Light musical work | 18 |
| Light musical drama | 19 |
| Light musical | 13 |
| Johann Strauss work | 19 |
| Herbert's forte | 19 |
| Herbert creation | 16 |
| Lehar specialties | 17 |
| Herbert offerings | 17 |
| Unlocks, poetically | 19 |
| Unlocks, in verse | 17 |
| Unlocks, in poetry | 18 |
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