| FERE | Healthy (Sc) (4) |
| FIRE | 'Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound/Upon a wheel of ___' (Shakespeare King Lear act 4, sc. 7) (4) |
| TIDE | 'There is a ___ in the affairs of men' (Shakespeare Julius Caesar act 4, sc. 3) (4) |
| AWFU | Shocking (Sc) (4) |
| CLEG | Horsefly (Sc) (4) |
| ORRA | Unoccupied (Sc) (4) |
| ETOO | Samuel ---, former Cameroon and Chelsea striker signed by Qatar SC in August (4) |
| JEAN | _ Bugatti, his creations include the Type 57 SC Atlantic (4) |
| BEAR | 'Exit, pursued by a ___' (Shakespeare The Winter's Tale act 3, sc 3; stage direction) (4) |
| CITY | 'What is the ___ but the people?' (Shakespeare Coriolanus act 3, sc. 1) (4) |
| NILE | 'Where's my serpent of old ___?' (Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra act 1, sc. 5) (4) |
| EGGS | 'I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks ___' (Shakespeare As You Like It act 2, sc. 5) (4) |
| LADY | 'The ___ doth protest too much, methinks' (Shakespeare Hamlet act 3, sc. 2) (4) |
| EDEN | 'This other ___, demi-paradise' (Shakespeare Richard II act. 2, sc. 1) (4) |
| BEER | 'To suckle fools and chronicle small ___' (Shakespeare Othello act 2, sc. 1) (4) |
| SINS | 'Nymph, in thy orisons/Be all my ___ remembered' (Shakespeare Hamlet act 3, sc. 1) (4) |
| RAGE | 'Heaven has no _, like love to hatred turned' (William Congreve The Mourning Bride (1697) act 3, sc. 2) (4) |
| EAST | 'It is the ___, and Juliet is the sun' (Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet act 2, sc. 2) (4) |
| DOGS | 'Cry 'Havoc!' and let slip the ___ of war' (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599) act 3 sc. 1) (4) |
| PITY | '___, like a naked new-born babe' (Shakespeare Macbeth act 1, sc. 7) (4) |
