| EURIPIDES | Greek tragic dramatist whose plays included Alcestis and Medea (9) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek tragic dramatist whose works include Ajax and Antigone (9) |
| SORCERESS | One's Medea, Alcestis or Ceres, switching parts (9) |
| RACINE | Jean ---, 17th Century French tragic poet and dramatist whose plays included Andromaque (6) |
| CORNEILLE | My man, the French tragic dramatist |
| RATTIGAN | Terence - - -, 20th Century British dramatist whose plays included The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version (8) |
| HAROLDPINTER | English dramatist whose plays included The Caretaker (1960) |
| SHAFFER | Peter _, English dramatist whose plays included Amadeus (1979) (7) |
| IBSEN | Henrik ___, Norwegian dramatist whose plays included Peer Gynt (5) |
| STRINDBERG | August ___, Swedish dramatist and novelist whose plays included The Father (10) |
| HENRIKIBSEN | Norwegian dramatist and poet whose plays included Peer Gynt (6,5) |
| SAINTOMER | Alice Diop film inspired by a real French court case and by the story of Medea |
| AMYMANSON | Scottish actress who played Medea in 2010s BBC series Atlantis (3,6) |
| INSTRUXIT | Medea cooked up a plan: propositum ____, Ovid Met. 7.276 |
| ADMETUS | Argonaut and king of Pherae in Greek mythology who married the princess Alcestis (7) |
| HUBRIS | Greek tragic flaw |
| ACTED | The leading characters of "Alcestis" capably tackled Euripides's dialogue (5) |
| AEETES | King of Colchis and father of Medea in Greek mythology |
| COLCHIS | In Greek mythology, it was the home of Medea and the destination of the Argonauts, a place of great wealth. In The Merchant of Venice (act 1, scene 1), Bassanio says, "Hang on her temples like a golde |
| OVID | Roman poet whose works include the tragedy Medea (4) |
