| MIRACLEPLAY | A medieval drama based on a biblical story or the life of a saint (7,4) |
| MYSTERYPLAY | Medieval drama based on biblical stories (7,4) |
| MYSTERY | The Chester ____ Plays are a medieval drama series revived in 1951, and will next be performed in June and July 2023 |
| NASHE | Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton |
| MARIA | Song sung by Tony in "West Side Story" or the nuns in "The Sound of Music" |
| ARISEMYLOVE | Film based on a biblical phrase |
| ROMCOM | "Funny Story" or "The Love Hypothesis," colloquially |
| SALOME | 1891 Oscar Wilde play based on a biblical character (6) |
| GODSPELL | Musical based on a biblical book (8) |
| BURNSSUPPER | A celebration of the life of a famous Scottish poet, held on, or near, his birthday on January 25 (5,6) |
| PRODIGALSON | Goad first girl and boy in a Biblical story (8,3) |
| TAMBURLAINE | Play by Christopher Marlowe based on the life of a Central Asian emperor (11) |
| MRSDALLOWAY | Virginia Woolf's novel about a day in the life of a woman in England post World War I: 2 wds. |
| REMEMBRANCE | 2011 German WWII drama based on a true story (11) |
| ORATORIO | What is a musical piece, usually of a biblical story? (8) |
| HEROD | In a biblical story, which king ordered the execution of all male children aged two and under? (5) |
| FEARLESS | 2006 film based on the life of a martial artist in the last years of the Qing dynasty |
| POWELL | Author of A Dance to the Music of Time whose wife Violet wrote A Jane Austen Compendium and The Life of a Provincial Lady (6) |
| IMITATIONGAME | The ___ American historical drama film from 2014 based on the life of a British mathematician Alan Turing: 2 wds. |
| DAVIDANDGOLIATH | Pair in a Biblical story about an underdog's unlikely triumph |
