| GONERIL | Daughter of King Lear who poisons Regan (7) |
| REGAN | Daughter of King Lear who is married to the Duke of Cornwall (5) |
| SALIERI | In an 1830 Alexander Pushkin play, who poisons Mozart's drink in an inn? (7) |
| EDGAR | In Shakespeare's King Lear, who is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester? (5) |
| EDWARD | English King Lear who wrote nonsense (6) |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| CORDELIA | Shakespeare heroine who's the youngest daughter of King Lear |
| ANTHONY | ___ Hopkins, 6D's co-star in The Remains Of The Day and recent BBC production of King Lear (7) |
| ARIADNE | Daughter of King Minos who gave Theseus a ball of thread in order to escape the Minotaur's labyrinth (7) |
| PHAEDRA | In Greek mythology, the daughter of King Minos and sister of Ariadne (7) |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of King Agamemnon in Greek mythology (7) |
| REDDFOXX | Actor who starred on Sanford and Son a sitcom developed by Norman Lear (who turns 100 today): 2 wds. |
| OWL | For Lear, who went to sea with the Pussy-cat? (3) |
| THEJUMBLIES | Characters created by poet Edward Lear who went to sea in a sieve (3,8) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| HOLINSHED | Who wrote the main source for the story of King Lear? |
| TATE | See 58 (0) Poet laureate who wrote a version of King Lear witha happy ending (5,4) |
| PLAGUE | "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us" (The Tragedy of King Lear) |
| RAN | Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" |
| CYRILCUSACK | Costar of King Lear, 1971 |
