| Musical dramas |
OPERAS |
| Nonprofessional |
AMATEUR |
| Objected, demonstrated against |
PROTESTED |
| Objects |
THINGS |
| Of the immediate past |
RECENT |
| Pain in an aural appendage |
EARACHE |
| Perceives sound |
HEARS |
| Razes |
LEVELS |
| Respire |
BREATHE |
| Reverberation of sound |
ECHO |
| Sidewalk |
PAVEMENT |
| Sixty minutes |
HOUR |
| Strangers or extraterrestrials |
ALIENS |
| Strip with straight edge to measure |
RULER |
| Tends the sick |
NURSES |
| The girl for Irish music award |
IRMA |
| Unit of alphabet |
LETTER |
| Verse of a poem |
STANZA |