| TRANIO | Lucentio's servant in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
| CALIBAN | Monstrous servant in Shakespeare's The Tempest (7) |
| BIANCA | Lucentio's 9 10 in The Taming of the Shrew? (6) |
| MUSTARDSEED | One of Titania's fairy servants in Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| PADUA | Italian city that is the setting for most of the action in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
| VINCENTIO | Father of the groom in Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew |
| PETRUCHIO | The male lead in Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew (9) |
| CHRISTOPHERSLY | Coarse drunken tinker in Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew (1592) |
| KISSMEKATE | What words from Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew are the title of a 1948 Cole Porter musical? (4,2,4) |
| HATE | Rom-com based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I...About You (4) |
| TENTHINGSIHATEABOUTYOU | 1999 film starring Heath Ledger, loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew |
| SHRF | Shakespeare's "The Taming of the ___" |
| SHREW | Shakespeare's The Taming of the... |
| BLACKEYE | A shiner for the servant in the borders of Belize (5,3) |
| PETER | Servant in 1898 Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw who seduces Miss Jessel (5,5) |
| ZANY | From the name of a stock comic servant in the commedia dell'arte, a word used to mean absurd, amusingly eccentric, bizarre or clownish (4) |
| NERISSA | Portia's servant in The Merchant of Venice |
| ELF | House-___ (type of servant in the Harry Potter books) |
| BUTLER | Head servant in charge of wines and the dining area (6) |
| PASSEPARTOUT | Fogg's servant in Around the World in Eighty Days (12) |
