| FLETCHER | Dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and succeeded Shakespeare as house playwright for the King's Men; or, an arrowsmith (8) |
| ABIGAIL | An archaic term, from 1 Samuel 25 and also Beaumont and Fletcher's The Scornful Lady, for a lady's-maid (7) |
| BEAUMONT | Francis -; dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher on The Knight of the Burning Pestle and The Maid's Tragedy (8) |
| JONSON | Dramatist who collaborated with Inigo Jones, his play Every Man in His Humour was performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1598 with Shakespeare in the cast (6) |
| ROWLEY | William ___, English dramatist who collaborated with Thomas Middleton on The Changeling and A Fair Q |
| GILBERT | W.S., British dramatist who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan (7) |
| BRECHT | Dramatist who collaborated with the composer Kurt Weill (6) |
| LASS | 'It was a lover and his ___,/With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino' (Shakespeare As You Like It act 5, sc. 3) (4) |
| SCABBARD | One who didn't strike Shakespeare as a sword carrier (8) |
| EDM | Umbrella term for genres such as house and techno |
| CERF | Co-panelist with Francis and Kilgallen |
| AECHMEA | Genus of bromeliads with showy bracts, popular as house plants (7) |
| CATHERINEOFSIENA | One of two patron saints of Italy, along with Francis of Assisi |
| WATSON | James -; the co-discoverer with Francis Crick of the doublehelical structure of DNA (6) |
| EXITS | ' They have their ___ and their entrances' (Shakespeare As You Like It (1599) |
| WEATHER | "Here shall he see/No enemy/But winter and rough' (Shakespeare As You Like It, 1599) (7) |
| CASSIUS | Roman senator described by Shakespeare as having 'a lean and hungry look' (7) |
| TOM | Daschle, who will return as House minority leader |
| JOHNSON | Hard to get into playwright, for two presidents |
| SMALLFRY | Minor playwright for children |
