| CHALK | "The Caucasian ___ Circle" (Brecht play) |
| CIRCLE | The Caucasian Chalk _, Bertolt Brecht play which premiered in Minnesota in 1948 (6) |
| THREEPENNYOPERA | 1928 Bertholt Brecht play, with "The" |
| GALILEO | Subject of a biographical Brecht play |
| MOTHER | "___ and her Children", Bertolt Brecht play (6,7) |
| COURAGE | '--- and her Children', Bertolt Brecht play (6,7) |
| THECRAB | Brecht plays written about a zodiac constellation (3,4) |
| INTHEROUND | Hot, tense leading man - and, for Brecht, plays may be seen thus (2,3,5) |
| BRECHTIAN | Suggestive of the style of the playwright who wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (9) |
| WILLIAMSPILLER | Golfer who pressured the PGA into lifting the "Caucasian race" clause barring blacks from the TOUR |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
| TBILISI | The capital of the Caucasian republic of Georgia (7) |
| LAIR | In the Caucasian saying, 'Two bears cannot live in the same ...' |
| SOCHI | Resort in the Caucasian Riviera |
| INNER | "The ___ Circle" (1946) |
| MATARESE | "The ___ Circle": Ludlum |
| MARRIAGE | "The ___ Circle," 1924 film |
| LAP | Take a ___; circle the track |
| FIRST | The ___ Circle, 1968 Solzhenitsyn novel set in a gulag (5) |
| GREAT | The equator is an example of a ____ circle |
