| Be at the controls | 18 |
| Run, as a business | 18 |
| Make go | 7 |
| Do surgery | 10 |
| Be a cutup? | 11 |
| Work or run | 11 |
| Work on an organ, maybe | 23 |
| Work on an open-and-shut case? | 30 |
| Wield a scalpel | 15 |
| Use a laparoscope, maybe | 24 |
| Manage or run | 13 |
| Go in, so to speak | 18 |
| Get under someone's skin, perhaps? | 38 |
| Function, like a machine | 24 |
| Fix an organ, maybe | 19 |
| Emulate the Mayos | 17 |
| Emulate Christiaan Barnard | 26 |
| Emulate a b.t.o. | 16 |
| Employ a trocar | 15 |
| Do surgery (on) | 15 |
| Do a tracheotomy, perhaps | 25 |
| Do a hip job, say? | 18 |
| Cut it out? | 11 |
| Mans | 4 |
| Gets under someone's skin? | 30 |
| Runs, as a business | 19 |
| Manages; runs | 13 |
| Does some body work? | 20 |
| Like music composed for a libretto | 34 |
| Like some powerful voices | 25 |
| Like a diva's performance | 29 |
| Like "Aida" | 21 |
| Suitable for La Scala | 21 |
| Loud and dramatic, as a voice | 29 |
| Like Wagner's output | 24 |
| Like the Metropolitan scene | 27 |
| Like much of Rossini's work | 31 |
| Like a Carreras concert | 23 |
| Like "Lohengrin," e.g. | 32 |
| Proprietor | 10 |
| Zero personality? | 17 |
| Smooth player | 13 |
| Tomlin's Ernestine | 22 |
| Tomlin as Ernestine | 19 |
| Technician | 10 |
| Switchboard worker | 18 |
| Sprint figure? | 14 |
| Someone to dial | 15 |
| Smooth worker | 13 |
| Shady business man | 18 |
| Responder to O on the dial | 26 |
| Person who's a zero? | 24 |
| Person at the controls | 22 |
| Part of B.T.O. | 14 |
| One whose working days are numbered? | 36 |
| One whose working days are numbered | 35 |
| One at the switchboard | 22 |
| O, on a telephone | 17 |
| Numbers person? | 15 |
| Number finder | 13 |
| Lily Tomlin role in "Laugh-In" | 40 |
| Ernestine, in a Lily Tomlin skit | 32 |
| AT&T employee | 17 |
| Antiquated telephone company position | 37 |
| A ham is one | 12 |
| 1972 Jim Croce song | 19 |
| Part of op. cit. | 16 |
| ___ citato (footnote phrase) | 28 |
| __ citato: in the work cited | 28 |
| The "op." of op. cit | 30 |
| ____ citato | 11 |
| ___ citato, footnote words | 26 |
| ___ citato (Latin phrase that's often abbreviated in footnotes) | 67 |
| ___ citado | 10 |
| Light musical production | 24 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan genre | 26 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan work | 25 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan production | 31 |
| Lehár specialty | 18 |
| Gilbert & Sullivan production | 33 |
| Friml's forte | 17 |
| D'Oyly Carte offering | 25 |
| Comic musical work | 18 |
| Bernstein's ''Trouble in Tahiti,'' e.g. | 59 |
| "The Pirates of Penzance," e.g. | 41 |
| "The Merry Widow," e.g. | 33 |
| "H.M.S. Pinafore," for one | 36 |
| "Candide," for one | 28 |
| Victor Herbert work | 19 |
| Victor Herbert opus | 19 |
| Sweethearts e.g. | 17 |
| Romberg's forte | 19 |
| Romberg product | 15 |
| Relative of a musical | 21 |
| Patter song genre | 17 |
| One of Victor Herbert's forty-three | 39 |
| Musical comedy precursor | 24 |
| Light work on a stage | 21 |
| Light work for musicians | 24 |
| Light musical work | 18 |