| THETWO | And 17 William Shakespeare play whose title characters are Proteus and Valentine (3,3,9,2,6) |
| THETWOGENTLEMENOFVERONA | William Shakespeare play whose title characters are Proteus and Valentine |
| GENTLEMENOF | William Shakespeare play whose title characters are Proteus and Valentine (3,3,9,2,6) |
| VERONA | William Shakespeare play whose title characters are Proteus and Valentine (3,3,9,2,6) |
| STALAG | "___ 17" (William Holden film set in a POW camp) |
| TWOGENTLEMENOFVERONA | Proteus and Valentine comedy, with "The" (3,9,2,5) |
| TWELFTH | William Shakespeare play whose characters include Valentine and Curio (7,5) |
| ERRORS | Shakespeare play whose title became a commonly used phrase, The ___ ___ ___ (6,2,6) |
| COMEDYOF | Shakespeare play whose title became a commonly used phrase, The ___ ___ ___ (6,2,6) |
| MUCHADOABOUT | William Shakespeare play whose characters include Don John and Don Pedro (4,3,5,7) |
| MIDNIGHTSCHILDREN | Salman Rushdie novel whose title characters are born at the moment of Indian independence |
| THEIDENTICALS | 2017 Elin Hilderbrand novel whose title characters are twin sisters: 2 wds. |
| THEM | 1954 horror movie whose title characters are giant ants |
| SUPERMARIOBROS | Nintendo franchise whose title characters are plumbers |
| VERONESE | Proteus and Valentine, for two noted examples |
| WAITINGFORGODOT | Play whose title character doesn't actually appear |
| HAMLET | Shakespeare play whose lead has the most lines of any character in a single play (6) |
| TEMPEST | The ____, Shakespeare play whose characters' names were used for Uranus's moons (7) |
| ASTREETCARNAMEDDESIRE | Play whose title vehicle stopped service about six months after the play's debut |
| ATHENS | Shakespeare play whose characters include Alcibiades (5,2,6) |
