| 100% | FAUST | 5 | Opera by Charles Gounod premiered in 1859 |
| 88% | FAUST | 5 | Opera by Charles Gounod that premiered in 1859 |
| 52% | PHILEMONAND | 11 | & 17A Charles Gounod opera premiered in 1860 based on a mythological tale of an old married couple |
| 49% | JENUFA | 6 | Opera by Leos Janacek premiered in 1904 |
| 42% | THEBARTERED | 11 | & 18D Comic opera by Bedrich Smetana premiered in Prague in 1866 |
| 37% | FROMTHE | 7 | Leos Janacek opera premiered in 1930 based on a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky |
| 36% | GENOVEVA | 8 | Opera by Robert Schumann first performed in 1850 |
| 36% | GOYESCAS | 8 | Opera by Enrique Granados first performed in 1916 |
| 35% | ELKS | 4 | Fraternal order founded by Charles Vivian in 1868 |
| 34% | TURANDOT | 8 | Unfinished opera by Giacomo Puccini first performed in 1926 |
| 34% | GIOCONDA | 8 | La —, opera by Amilcare Ponchielli first performed in 1876 |
| 34% | IGOR | 4 | Assistant played by Charles Bronson in "House of Wax" |
| 34% | AIDA | 4 | Opera, set in Egypt, by Giuseppe Verdi |
| 34% | AIDA | 4 | Opera that premiered in Cairo |
| 33% | MANON | 5 | Five-act opera by Jules Massenet first produced in 1884 |
| 33% | TURANDOT | 8 | Unfinished opera by Puccini featuring the aria In questa reggia |
| 33% | NOSE | 4 | The —, opera by Dmitri Shostakovich first performed in full in 1930 |
| 33% | TOSCA | 5 | Opera that premiered in Rome in 1900 |
| 32% | VESTAS | 6 | __ Feuer; opera started by Beethoven in 1803 |
| 32% | OBE | 3 | Award bestowed by King Charles, in brief |
| 32% | AIDA | 4 | Verdi opera premiering in Cairo |
| 32% | INTERMEZZO | 10 | Two-act opera by Richard Strauss first performed in Dresden in 1924 |
| 32% | THEROSEOF | 9 | & 21A Opera by Arthur Sullivan and Basil Hood first performed in 1899 |
| 32% | RATTLEOFA | 9 | & 2D Stage play by Charles Dyer first produced in Nottingham in 1962 |
| 32% | SYDNEYCARTON | 12 | London barrister in 1859 Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities |
| 32% | BOZ | 3 | Pseudonym used by Charles Dickens in contributions to the Morning Chronicle newspaper |
| 32% | ARIA | 4 | Opera solo disrupted by Bugs Bunny in "Long-Haired Hare" |