| HADST | "___ thou not fifteen pence?": "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| LEHAR | ?The Merry Widow? composer |
| NOTE | Five or ten, but not fifteen |
| CANST | "___ thou not minister to a mind diseas'd?" --Shakespeare |
| DIDST | "___ thou not hear a noise?": Macbeth |
| EXPEL | European with ten pence the Spanish exclude (5) |
| GROAT | For four pence, the king receives little cereal (5) |
| NICOLAI | Co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic who composed an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| POTATO | A root vegetable with a jacket or one of the yam-like tubers wished by Falstaff to rain from the sky in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| PISTOL | A follower of Falstaff in the William Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| OYSTER | The world, according to Pistol, in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' |
| GRATIS | "Thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul ____?" (Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor) |
| BARDOLPH | A follower of Falstaff in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (8) |
| CORPORAL | Rank held by the character Nym in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597) |
| MISTRESSPAGE | Name one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. |
| SAYEST | “What ____ thou, my bully-rook?” (The Merry Wives of Windsor) |
| NYM | Who is the incorrigible rogue in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V who loses his betrothed, Mis |
| FALSTAFF | Sir John, character who appears in the Shakespeare plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV Pts 1 and 2 (8) |
| ACTAEON | This hunter, a grandson of Cadmus, saw Diana bathing, which meant she turned him into a stag that was then killed by his dogs. In The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 2, scene 1), Pistol says, "Like Sir __ |
| CORPORALNYM | Follower of Falstaff in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives Of Windsor, said in Henry V to have been engaged to Mistress Quickly (8,3) |
