| MINORCHARACTER | Guildenstern, in "Hamlet" |
| ROSENCRANTZ | Companion of the courtier Guildenstern in Hamlet |
| COURTIER | Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, in "Hamlet" |
| LENDANEAR | Listen behind Guildenstern and Hamlet in Lear? (4,2,3) |
| PLAY | "Hamlet" or "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| ACT | One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| ENGLAND | In the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966),, what did Stoppard call "a conspiracy of cartographers"? (7) |
| DANES | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for two |
| TOMSTOPPARD | British playwright whose works include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) |
| GARB | At first, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern rejected black clothes (4) |
| STOPPARD | British playwright who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (8) |
| LEADS | Hamlet in "Hamlet" and others |
| GHOST | Hamlet's father in "Hamlet," e.g. |
| TITLEROLE | Hamlet in Hamlet, say (5,4) |
| MORN | In "Hamlet," it's "in russet mantle clad" |
| VILLAGER | One of those in Hamlet has large country residence in the middle of Nigeria (8) |
| UNCLOTHE | Strip showing bad guy in Hamlet nearly getting part in original of ... (8) |
| OPHELIA | Daughter of Polonius in Hamlet, depicted in paintings by John William Waterhouse and John Everett Mi |
| PLAYFORKEEPS | You might lose your marbles if you do this in Hamlet and supporting parts in Castles (4,3,5) |
| OSRIC | So upset with one in church, one in "Hamlet" (5) |