| GONERIL | Eldest daughter of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| CASSIUS | Leader of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| HORATIO | University friend of Hamlet in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| CORDELIA | One of the daughters of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
| MACDUFF | Character who kills Macbeth in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| REGAN | Middle daughter of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| VOLUMNIA | Mother of Coriolanus in the William Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
| GERTRUDE | Mother of Hamlet in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| CASSIO | Lieutenant of Othello in the William Shakespeare play of that name (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) |
| SPENLOW | Dora, child-wife of David Copperfield in the Charles Dickens novel of that name (7) |
| INFANTA | Historically, the non-inheriting eldest daughter of a Spanish monarch (7) |
| ADADOOM | Owner of Cold Comfort Farm in the novel of that name by Stella Gibbons (3,4) |
| DESDEMONA | Wife of Othello in the play of that name by William Shakespeare (9) |
| ANTHONY | ___ Hopkins, 6D's co-star in The Remains Of The Day and recent BBC production of King Lear (7) |
| BANQUO | Scottish general whose ghost haunts Macbeth in the William Shakespeare tragedy of that name |
| IANMCKELLEN | Knighted actor currently treading the boards in London's West End as King Lear in the play of the same name (3,8) |
| VANESSA | -- Redgrave, eldest daughter of Sir Michael Redgrave (7) |
| LOURDES | _ Leon, eldest daughter of pop icon Madonna (7) |
| ELSINORE | Royal castle inhabited by Hamlet in the Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
