| JAQUES | Character who delivers the "All the world's a stage" speech in As You Like It (6) |
| RUMOUR | Strange and belonged to us - this was the all the gossip (6) |
| SANS | Word repeated four times in the last line of Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage" speech |
| ASYOULIKEIT | Pastoral comedy by Shakespeare which includes Jaques's 'All the world's a stage' speech (2,3,4,2) |
| MERELY | "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women ___ players" |
| BOWLER | A hat also called a coke; or, a cricketer who delivers the "cherry" to the opposing batter (6) |
| MERELYPLAYERS | Jacques in As You Like It: "All the world's a stage and all the men and women _ _ (6,7) |
| WILLEM | Dafoe who delivers the line "I'm something of a scientist myself" in 2002's Spider-Man |
| STREEP | Actress who delivers the "cerulean sweater" monologue, in "The Devil Wears Prada" |
| POSTIE | A man who delivers the mail (6) |
| PLAYERS | "All the world's a stage, / And all the men and women merely ...;" (Shakespeare's "As You Like It") |
| PARSON | Righteous character who delivers Chaucer's final tale |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Character who delivers the line "A handbag?" in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest |
| ACTORES | "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely ____" |
| METAPHOR | Figure of speech such as "All the world's a stage" (8) |
| MACBETH | Character who delivers the line "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow" |
| LIVEALBUMS | 'All the World's a Stage' and 'Exit... Stage Left' for Canadian rock legends Rush: 2 wds. |
| LADYMACBETH | Shakespearean character who delivers the line "Out, damned spot!" |
| STAGE | "All the world's a ___, / And all the men and women merely players": "As You Like It" |
| PITCHER | In baseball, the player on the fielding team who delivers the ball to the batter (7) |
