| GONERIL | Power-hungry daughter of King Lear |
| REGAN | Daughter of King Lear, sister of Goneril and Cordelia (5) |
| CORDELIA | Youngest daughter of King Lear in the William Shakespeare play of that name |
| CISSEUS | Thracian king who was father of Theano, the wife of Antenor, and husband of Telecleia, a daughter of King Ilus of Troy, as related in Homer's Iliad (7) |
| WARLORDS | Power-hungry military leaders |
| MEGALOMANIAC | One power-hungry Arab enters a new calm age (12) |
| MACBETH | Shakespeare play about a power-hungry Scottish nobleman |
| MEGALOMANIACS | Power-hungry people manage oil scam at sea (13) |
| EGOS | Power-hungry people have big ones |
| AMPS | Help for the power hungry |
| OVERAMBITIOUS | Sadly I'm too abusive around Republican and too power-hungry |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| PLAGUE | "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to ____ us" (The Tragedy of King Lear) |
| ANTHONY | ___ Hopkins, 6D's co-star in The Remains Of The Day and recent BBC production of King Lear (7) |
| ANTIGONE | 'Hapless child of hapless sire', the ill-starred daughter of King Oedipus of Thebes |
| ARIADNE | Legendary daughter of King Minos of Crete, she helped Theseus to locate and slay the Minotaur and find his way out of the labyrinth afterwards |
| RAN | Akira Kurosawa's adaptation of "King Lear" |
| CYRILCUSACK | Costar of King Lear, 1971 |
| ARKLE | RH version of King Lear (5) |
| ACTIV | Penultimate part of "King Lear" |
