| SEXROBOTS | Rude mechanicals take boots off, after Pyramus and Thisbe finally kiss |
| ENDING | Part of a rom-com when the main characters finally kiss, perhaps |
| NINNYSTOMB | In 3.1, the "rude mechanicals," as Puck has named them, are rehearsing their play. Bottom, who plays Pyramus, and Flute, who plays Thisbe, meet in the moonlight. Flute says, "As true as truest horse t |
| FLUTE | Instrument for one of the rude mechanicals (5) |
| LEGPULLER | The joker who helped you get the boot off? (3,6) |
| ANDEAN | Like a condor to boot off odd bits of remains (6) |
| STARVELING | Robin ___, Rude Mechanical in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who plays the part of Moonshine in the performance of Pyramus and Thisbe |
| APLAYWITHIN | Pyramus and Thisbe, perhaps, "As You (Romeo and Juliet) Like It"? (1,4,6,1,4) |
| MULBERRY | With royal associations dating back to Tudor times and featuring in the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, a tree in the genus Morus with fruits ripe when they fall to the ground (8) |
| MYTH | 'Pyramus and Thisbe e.g.,' |
| OVID | He wrote of Pyramus and Thisbe |
| WALL | Separator of Pyramus and Thisbe |
| SNUG | Name of the joiner in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who plays the lion in Pyramus and Thisbe (4) |
| BABYLONIANS | Pyramus and Thisbe |
| TEDIOUSBRIEF | In 5.1, Theseus is given the choice of performances that will happen during the nuptials. One of them is "A ___ ___ scene of young Pyramus And his love Thisbe, very tragical mirth." |
| PYRAMUS | ******* and Thisbe, pair of legendary lovers from Babylon (7) |
| HETERO | As Thisbe, wanting in essence to be embraced by Pyramus? (6) |
| RETAININGWALL | Support not reducing cast of Pyramus and Thisbe? |
| MIDSUMMER | Play with fairies and "mechanicals" (9,6,5) |
| LIONSSHARE | Quantity of action got in the mechanicals' play? Yes and no |
