| VISIONS | "My Oberon, what ____ have I seen! / Methought I was enamoured of an ass" (A Midsummer Night's Dream) |
| CHESHIRECAT | Alice In Wonderland creature that prompted the remark, ' I have often seen a cat without a grin but never have I seen a grin without a cat.' (8,3) |
| ERE | "Oft have I seen, ___ Time had ploughed my cheek" (Wordsworth) |
| ASS | "Methought I was enamor'd of an ___": "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| ENAMOURED | "Methought I was ____ of an ass" (Shakespeare's Titania) |
| TITANIA | "Methought I was enamored of an ass" speaker |
| ABSENCE | Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my ___ been / From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! / What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! / What old December's bareness everywhere! |
| BAUBLE | What mock sceptre carried by a court jester consisted of a stick surmounted by a head with ears of an ass? (6) |
| ANASS | "Methought I was enamour'd of __!": Titania |
| BIRNAM | In 5.5, a messenger enters to tell Macbeth what he has witnessed. "As I did stand my watch upon the hill, I looked toward ___ and anon, methought, The wood began to move." |
| IWAS | "Methought __ enamour'd of an ass": Titania |
| ONOCENTAUR | Mythical beast with the upper body of a man and the lower body of an ass |
| SASSY | A somewhat crass ass a" Yvonne is full of lip (5) |
| BOTTOM | Shakespeare character who was a bit of an ass saying bravo when returning (6) |
| IDIOTIC | I had one of the ears of an ass |
| MULE | Emu lecturer made a bit of an ass of himself (4) |
| ATBOTTOM | Basically cheers up Bard's character who's a bit of an ass (2,6) |
| ASTORIA | Perhaps Nancy and I seen at a London theatre once (7) |
| FALL | Become enamoured of a bout of wrestling (4) |
| JAWBONE | A bit of an ass, this Biblical slayer |
