| LIGHTSHOW | Play of light |
| DISPLAYOFCOLOREDLIGHTS | Play of light |
| OPALESCENCE | Play of light nature, say, introduced by old friend |
| CORDELIA | One of the daughters of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
| IRIDESCENT | Description of an object with a play of lustrous rainbow colours, such as a soap bubble, mother-of-pearl-lined shell, peacock's feather or butterfly's wing (10) |
| HAMLET | 1996 film adaption of William Shakespeare's play of the same name about a Danish prince and his journey of vengeance starring Kate Winslet |
| SHUFFLE | A walk while dragging one's feet; an act of mixing cards in a pack; a change of ministers; or, a play of one's tracks/songs in a random order (7) |
| SOLID | Descriptive of the play of a winner* |
| PAR | Standard of play, of course? (3) |
| LITURGICALDRAMA | Genre of religious musical play of the Middle Ages |
| ALLMYSONS | Arthur Miller's Tony-winning play of war-time profiteering and criticism of the American Dream (3,2, |
| CASSIO | Lieutenant of Othello in the Shakespeare play of that name (6) |
| CASSIUS | Leader of the conspiracy against Julius Caesar in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| GONERIL | Eldest daughter of King Lear in the play of that name by William Shakespeare (7) |
| LATOSCA | Play of 1887 by Victorien Sardou upon which Puccini's almostexactly-the-samenamed opera of 1900 is based: 2 wds. |
| ELEPHANTMAN | David Bowie starred in the Tony award winning play of the tragic life of John Merrick, The ... (8,3) |
| OPAL | Form of silica, opaque or transparent with an iridescent play of colours valued as a gem |
| BORISGODUNOV | Russian ruler, eponymous hero of Pushkin's play of 1831 (5,7) |
| VOLUMNIA | Mother of Coriolanus in the William Shakespeare play of that name (8) |
| GERTRUDE | Mother of Hamlet in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
