| TEAANDSYMPATHY | 1953 play, or consolation for a meatless meal? |
| COLTCOMFORT | Scarce consolation for a horse? |
| BEANBURRITO | *Meatless meal in a tortilla |
| WALNUT | Meatless meal leads to salt tuna row (6,5) |
| ROAST | Meatless meal leads to salt tuna row (6,5) |
| BEETS | Source of the "blood" in a meatless burger, maybe |
| PLANTBASED | Like a meatless diet ... or like the answers to 3-, 7-, 10-, and 24-Down? |
| SPARE | *Consolation for one who doesn't strike |
| PRIZE | Consolation for the loser (5) |
| NOLUCK | Couple of words of consolation for an unfortunate person? (2,4) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish author and Nobel laureate (1969) noted for the 1953 play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) (7) |
| GODOT | Waiting for -; 1953 play by Samuel Beckett (5) |
| THECRUCIBLE | A 1953 play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials (3,8) |
| COMFORT | Consolation for grief |
| SALEM | Arthur Millers 1953 play, The Crucible, took a swipe at McCarthyism by way of the witch trials in th |
| VLADIMIR | Character who waits for Godot along with Estragon in Samuel Beckett's 1953 play (8) |
| LARK | "The ...", 1953 play by Jean Anouilh (4) |
| TEA | '--- and Sympathy', 1953 play by Robert Anderson (3) |
| CRUCIBLE | The _, 1953 play about the Salem witch trials (8) |
| TEAHOUSE | "The __ of the August Moon": Pulitzer-winning 1953 play |
