Complete Clue List
Across
1. Refinement: Gilbert and Sullivan brought this to the English musical theatre
5. Commotion
8. The Gramophone Company (init.) produced an album of "The Mikado" in 1917
9. Aristocrats, the subjects of several Gilbert and Sullivan operas
10. Witnesses
11. Resistance unit
12. Hanger-on
14. W. S. Gilbert also wrote ____, some of which inspired his plays and operas
15. Call attention (to) as with Gilbert including new telephone technology in "Pinafore"
16. Acquire, as debts
18. Prefix with linear
20. Append
21. Land measure
22. The second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's 14 collaborations: "____, Limited" (1893)
23. Choose
24. "'What, never?' 'No, never!' 'What, never?' 'Well, hardly ____!'" "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1878)
25. Parody, as Gilbert and Sullivan were wont to aim at British institutions
Down
1. Second-to-last; 22A was this opera for Gilbert and Sullivan
2. Free, in France; or part of a Cuban cocktail
3. Guide
4. Pinafore opening (init.)
6. Unqualified people in positions of authority: a ____ of Gilbert and Sullivan operas
7. Revive
10. "The Distant ____" (1874), Gilbert and Sullivan parlour ballad collaboration
11. Short work with arias
13. Rough and risque, characteristic of light opera before Gilbert and Sullivan
17. Richard D'Oyly ____ built the Savoy Theatre to host Gilbert and Sullivan operas
19. Italian isle or trouser type
22. Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship: full of ____ and downs