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Small Beginnings Crossword Puzzle

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This is the first of three crosswords based on the works of the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. There is a hidden theme: find the same word (with different clues) in each of the connected puzzles. Enjoy!
Author: psnz - Diff: Harder

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    • 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