| PISTOL | Cowardly braggart in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| BRAGGADOCIO | Empty boasting; from the name of a braggart in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (11) |
| SLEEPINGGASBAG | Braggart in bed? |
| POTATO | A root vegetable with a jacket or one of the yam-like tubers wished by Falstaff to rain from the sky in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| OYSTER | The world, according to Pistol, in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' |
| GRATIS | "Thinkest thou I'll endanger my soul ____?" (Falstaff, in The Merry Wives of Windsor) |
| BARDOLPH | A follower of Falstaff in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (8) |
| NYM | Who is the incorrigible rogue in The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry V who loses his betrothed, Mis |
| ACTAEON | This hunter, a grandson of Cadmus, saw Diana bathing, which meant she turned him into a stag that was then killed by his dogs. In The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 2, scene 1), Pistol says, "Like Sir __ |
| ROBIN | Falstaff's page in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| MISTRESSQUICKLY | Servant to Dr. Caius in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| ANNEPAGE | Character with three suitors in The Merry Wives of Windsor |
| SIRJOHNFALSTAFF | Sensual, boastful, mendacious knight in The Merry Wives of Windsor (3,4,8) |
| FALSTAFF | Sir John --, character in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (8) |
| TRYST | Event in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| ANNE | ___ Page, woman in "The Merry Wives of Windsor" |
| SAYEST | “What ____ thou, my bully-rook?” (The Merry Wives of Windsor) |
| OYSTERS | Pearl-forming molluscs or "huitres", referred to by Pistol in The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| NICOLAI | Co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic who composed an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| CORPORAL | Rank held by the character Nym in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (1597) |
