| GLOUCESTER | Earl of --, character in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' (10) |
| CORDELIA | Youngest daughter of the title character in Shakespeare's King Lear (8) |
| REGAN | Character in Shakespeare's 'King Lear' (5) |
| SCROOP | Sir Stephen ___, character in Shakespeare's King Richard the Second |
| EDGAR | In Shakespeare's King Lear, who is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester? (5) |
| EDMUND | First name of the character "Blackadder" played by Rowan Atkinson; or, the younger brother of Edgar in Shakespeare's King Lear (6) |
| AWOLF | "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of _ ___." Fool, in Shakespeare's King Lear |
| CORNWALL | Duke of -; Regan's husband in Shakespeare's King Lear (8) |
| GOEST | "Ride more than thou ___..." - Fool in Shakespeare's King Lear |
| OSWALD | Steward to Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear |
| GONERIL | Eldest daughter in Shakespeare's King Lear (7) |
| PINCH | Word whose earliest use to mean "hardship" came in Shakespeare's King Lear , later slang for "steal" (5) |
| APOSTROPHE | It shows a lack of character, in a word (10) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Irish dramatist who adapted Shakespeare's King Lear with a happy ending and was appointed England's poet laureate in 1692 (5) |
| ENEMYS | "The ___ in view. Draw up your powers." Edmund in William Shakespeare's King Lear, Act V, Scene 1 |
| HENRYBEAUFORT | English clergyman, Bishop of Winchester in Shakespeare's King Henry VI Part I (5,8) |
| BLEARY | Like eyes made tired by taking in Shakespeare's king (6) |
| GLENDOWER | Owen ___, rebel in Shakespeare's "King Henry IV" |
| ACRES | A Thousand -; Jane Smiley's modernised adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear that earned her a Pulit |
| RAN | Akira Kurosawa transposed Shakespeare's King Lear to feudal Japan in this 1985 movie |
