| Loge | 4 |
| Place to see the fat lady sing | 30 |
| Area from which to hear an aria | 31 |
| They're in areas where arias air | 36 |
| Met fan | 7 |
| Met fans | 8 |
| One giving pep talks between acts of "Carmen"? | 56 |
| Met VIP, e.g. | 13 |
| Met VIPs | 8 |
| Met regular, e.g. | 17 |
| Lorgnette's relative | 24 |
| Lorgnettes | 10 |
| Binoculars for the Met | 22 |
| Met somebody? | 13 |
| Donizetti fan, e.g. | 19 |
| Ascending swimmer lacks time for recovery (5) | 45 |
| Musical phantom's thing? | 28 |
| Venice's La Fenice, for one | 31 |
| Covent Garden, for one | 22 |
| View from the Sydney Harbour Bridge | 35 |
| Teatro San Carlo, e.g. | 22 |
| Sydney sight | 12 |
| Sydney has a famous one | 23 |
| Sydney Harbor landmark | 22 |
| Sight from Sydney Harbour | 25 |
| Place to take binoculars | 24 |
| Phantom's milieu | 20 |
| Phantom's home | 18 |
| Palais Garnier, for one | 23 |
| Locale for binoculars | 21 |
| La Scala is one | 15 |
| Kennedy Center facility | 23 |
| Diva's workplace | 20 |
| City landmark | 13 |
| Battle field? | 13 |
| Where fat ladies sing? | 22 |
| Covent Gardens and La Scala | 27 |
| Aida or Luisa Miller? | 21 |
| Counting devices | 16 |
| Libretto accompaniment | 22 |
| Modus ___ | 9 |
| Modus follower | 14 |
| Modus -- | 8 |
| Latin word in police work | 25 |
| Latin word in police dramas | 27 |
| The 2s in 2 + 2 = 4 | 19 |
| Objects of computer instructions | 32 |
| Math functions are performed on these | 37 |
| Dividends in division, e.g. | 27 |
| Producing an effect | 19 |
| Having an effect | 16 |
| Secret agents | 13 |
| Those who work | 14 |
| Things producing effects | 24 |
| Doers | 5 |
| Tristan or Isolde, e.g. | 23 |
| Tristan or Isolde | 17 |
| Tristan and Isolde, e.g. | 24 |
| Faust and Méphistophélès, e.g. | 39 |
| Aida and Norma, notably | 23 |
| Big names at the Met | 20 |
| Ready to be turned on | 21 |
| Set to work | 11 |
| Did a tonsil job | 16 |
| Did a surgeon's job | 23 |
| Managed congressional aides? | 28 |
| Fail to show a profit | 21 |
| Repair organs, e.g. | 19 |
| Open oneÂ’s heart, perhaps | 29 |
| Get to the heart of, say? | 25 |
| What song doctors do | 20 |
| Owner's expense | 19 |
| Pricing strategy figure | 23 |
| Measure of profitability | 24 |
| Place with cutting edge technology? | 35 |
| Place for a procedure | 21 |
| Windows, for one | 16 |
| Microsoft Windows, for one | 26 |
| Windows, for example | 20 |
| Windows or Unix | 15 |
| Unix, for one | 13 |
| Surgeons M.O.? | 14 |
| Things on a cutting room floor? | 31 |
| Military campaign | 17 |
| Face lift, for example | 22 |
| Appendectomy, for one | 21 |
| Work on a table | 15 |
| Overlord, e.g. | 14 |
| Military procedure | 18 |
| Game in which the puzzle's long answers are pieces | 54 |
| D-day's ___ Overlord | 24 |
| Board game with the character Cavity Sam | 40 |
| Ready to function | 17 |
| Military tactic designed to confuse? | 36 |
| 1991 Jackie Chan film | 21 |
| What surgery on a frail patient might represent? | 48 |
| Organ transplants, e.g. | 23 |
| They're ordered by mathematicians | 37 |
| Monologue subjects | 18 |
| Hospital staff cuts? | 20 |