| ROSENCRANTZ | Companion of the courtier Guildenstern in Hamlet |
| ETIQUETTE | Code of polite behaviour described in Debrett's Handbook or Baldassare Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier (9) |
| MINORCHARACTER | Guildenstern, in "Hamlet" |
| COURTIER | Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, in "Hamlet" |
| OSRIC | Name of one of the courtiers in Shakespeare's Hamlet (5) |
| MINUET | "The ___ of the Courtiers" from "Rigoletto" |
| SEKHMET | In Egyptian religion, she was a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Re. She was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine. She was the companion of the god |
| ENGLAND | In the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966),, what did Stoppard call "a conspiracy of cartographers"? (7) |
| LENDANEAR | Listen behind Guildenstern and Hamlet in Lear? (4,2,3) |
| ACT | One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| TIER | The courtier's rank (4) |
| PLAY | "Hamlet" or "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| CELINEDION | The Power of Love singer who was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in 2008: 2 wds. |
| DANES | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for two |
| TOMSTOPPARD | British playwright whose works include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) |
| GARB | At first, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern rejected black clothes (4) |
| STOPPARD | British playwright who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (8) |
| DARTAGNAN | Companion of The Three Musketeers in the novel of that name by Dumas (9) |
| BUTCHER | Tub companion of the baker and the candlestick maker in the nursery rhyme, Rub-a-dub-dub |
| HUGHJACKMAN | Stage and screen actor appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours (4,7) |
