| SOMETHINGROTTEN | Musical that takes its name from a line in "Hamlet": 2 wds. |
| MOMSSPAGHETTI | Restaurant opened by Eminem, in 2021, which takes its name from a line in "Lose Yourself" |
| ACTV | When Hamlet dies in "Hamlet" (2 wds.) |
| ACTI | When the ghost appears in "Hamlet": 2 wds. |
| HORATIO | "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, --", a dramatic line in 'Hamlet' (7) |
| DOTH | "The lady ___ protest too much, methinks" (line in Hamlet) |
| SHUE | Actress Elisabeth who played herself in "Hamlet 2" |
| LESMIZ | Musical that takes place in a |
| EVITA | Broadway musical that takes place partly in Buenos Aires |
| ANNIE | Musical that takes place during the Depression |
| THEQUESTION | To be or not to be, that is ___: first line in Hamlet's soliloquy (3,9) |
| LADY | What did Alan Jay Lerner take from a line in the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down for the title of a Lerner and Loewe musical? (2,4,4) |
| MYFAIR | What did Alan Jay Lerner take from a line in the nursery rhyme London Bridge is Falling Down for the title of a Lerner and Loewe musical? (2,4,4) |
| EASTISEAST | 1999 comedy film whose title derives from a line in a Rudyard Kipling poem (4,2,4) |
| PARR | Word traditionally ascribed to the full moon in April; colour that takes its name from a sweet william-like flower; the chaffinch or its call; or, a name for a minnow or a samlet (4) |
| EXIT | Departure from a line in the reduced text (4) |
| KATEWINSLET | Titanic actress who played Ophelia in the 1996 film Hamlet: 2 wds. |
| KENNETHBRANAGH | Actor who directed and played the title character in 1996's "Hamlet": 2 wds. |
| DEREKJACOBI | "Gladiator II" actor who played Claudius in 1996's "Hamlet": 2 wds. |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | 1931 novel by English writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley, whose title comes from a line in Shakespeare's The Tempest (5,3,5) |
