| STAGE | All the world, to Shake-speare |
| PORCUPINEWILL | What they called Shake-speare after that really bad haircut? |
| ADO | Shake-speare title word |
| BEAVER | The Sign of the ___ 1983 Elizabeth George Speare novel that was adapted into the film Keeping the Promise |
| ASTAGE | All the world, to the Bard |
| PUBLICLY | For all the world to see |
| ONPARADE | For all the world to see |
| ILSA | The "she" of "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" |
| GIN | "Of all the ... joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," said Humphrey Bogart |
| OFALL | Famous quote from the 1942 film Casablanca, "_ _ the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." (2,3) |
| ROSSI | Who is the only football player in the world to have won the World Cup, Golden Boot, Golden Ball and Ballon d'or awards - all four in the same year? (5) |
| METRE | Basic unit of length in the metric system (as all the world, apart from the US, spells it) |
| EYE | "The sun with one ___ vieweth all the world": Shak. |
| UNITED | Agreed to put all the world on a new diet |
| PROCLAIM | Announce to all the world |
| KICK | "And all the world is football shaped/it's just for me to ___ in space," from XTC'S "Senses Working Overtime" (4) |
| GLOBAL | All the world over, all go astray with British leader (6) |
| MERELYPLAYERS | Jacques in As You Like It: "All the world's a stage and all the men and women _ _ (6,7) |
| PLAYERS | "All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely ...;" (Shakespeare's "As You Like It") |
| ACTORES | "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely ____" |
