| 1970s-'80s baseball All-Star Manny | 38 |
| High point in a soprano's career? | 37 |
| Winning bird's sound? | 25 |
| Bird call contestant's winning performance? | 47 |
| High-pitched warbling sounds | 28 |
| Musical embellishments | 22 |
| Diva's practice | 19 |
| Woodwind embellishments | 23 |
| What opera fans get | 19 |
| Wavy lines, in music | 20 |
| Voice lesson subjects | 21 |
| Treetop chorus | 14 |
| Sounds from Sutherland | 22 |
| Sings like a bird | 17 |
| Singing gymnastics | 18 |
| Singer's exercises | 22 |
| Rolls the r's in "barrio," e.g. | 45 |
| Plays the opening of ''Rhapsody in Blue'' | 57 |
| Pianistic embellishments | 24 |
| Joan Sutherland specialties | 27 |
| Emulates a canary | 17 |
| Diva's exercises | 20 |
| Bird-like flute sounds | 22 |
| Bird songs | 10 |
| Highlights for some | 19 |
| Opera fan? | 10 |
| Object with three round projections | 35 |
| Like some foliage | 17 |
| Fossilized marine animals | 25 |
| "Studs Lonigan" and others | 36 |
| The "Godfather" films, e.g. | 37 |
| "The Lord of the Rings," among others | 47 |
| Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," for one | 56 |
| Three-part work | 15 |
| Lightfoot's "Railroad ____" | 41 |
| Each of the titles in this puzzle's theme answers, e.g. | 59 |
| Dos Passos's "U.S.A." | 35 |
| Dante's "The Divine Comedy," e.g. | 47 |
| Aeschylus' "Oresteia," e.g. | 41 |
| "U.S.A." by Dos Passos is one | 39 |
| "The Lord of the Rings," notably | 42 |
| "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" five-part series, jokingly | 79 |
| ''The Lord of the Rings'' movies, e.g. | 54 |
| Quick haircut | 13 |
| Barber's quick job | 22 |
| In fighting shape | 17 |
| Barbershop touch-up | 19 |
| Quick job for a barber | 22 |
| Not a full cut | 14 |
| Minimal haircut | 15 |
| Decorate, as a Christmas tree | 29 |
| Tonsorial work | 14 |
| In boxing shape | 15 |
| Barbering job | 13 |
| Wasp-waisted | 12 |
| Tonsorial touch-up | 18 |
| Request to a barber | 19 |
| Request for a hairdresser | 25 |
| Remove fat from | 15 |
| Reduce, as a budget | 19 |
| Light haircut request | 21 |
| It's on your car | 20 |
| Crop, as a picture | 18 |
| Barbershop quickie | 18 |
| Adjust the sails | 16 |
| Young rocker descriptor | 23 |
| Work on hedges | 14 |
| Work on a Christmas tree | 24 |
| Window molding | 14 |
| What touring rockers try to get after hiatus | 44 |
| What overweight rockers get before tour? | 40 |
| Wasp-waisted, e.g. | 18 |
| Use the clippers | 16 |
| Underworld song off "A Hundred Days Off" album | 56 |
| Tonsorial request | 17 |
| Tonsorial procedure | 19 |
| Tinsel, e.g. | 12 |
| Tassels, e.g. | 13 |
| Take some off the top, say | 26 |
| Take a little off the top, say | 30 |
| Supercuts job | 13 |
| Stylist's touchup | 21 |
| Slim's partner | 18 |
| Shorten slightly | 16 |
| Shape a mustache | 16 |
| Request of a barber | 19 |
| Remove the fat from | 19 |
| Remove the edges | 16 |
| Remove fat | 10 |
| Remove excess | 13 |
| Quickie haircut | 15 |
| Quickie for a stylist | 21 |
| Quick job in a barbershop | 25 |
| Quick job at the barbershop | 27 |
| Quick barbering job | 19 |
| Prepare the Yule tree | 21 |
| Prepare the Xmas tree | 21 |
| Piping, for example | 19 |
| Not a major haircut | 19 |
| Little off the top | 18 |