This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Thursday, December 11, 2025 (14 Across). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Thursday puzzles often have a trick, such as a rebus (several letters in one square) or answers that bend the rules.
Answer length: 5 squares
First letter
O _ _ _ _
First and last letters
O _ _ _ A
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OPERA as a word: (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance; (music) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
OPERA has been an answer 11 times in the NYT Crossword and Mini since December 8, 2025.
Other clues with the same answer
- "Norma" or "Tosca"
- Work with a libretto
- Performance at Lincoln Center
- One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven
- "Don Giovanni" genre
- "L'Orfeo" or "Idomeneo"
- "___ is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings": Robert Benchley
- Performance at Milan's La Scala or Naples's Teatro di San Carlo
- Web browser whose logo is a red O
- "The Phantom of the ___"
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- Some ways off (19 Across)
- Plane divider (20 Across)
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