| DUNCAN | Scottish king murdered by Shakespeare's Macbeth (6) |
| INVERNESS | Castle in which King Duncan was murdered by Shakespeare's Macbeth (9) |
| HAMLET | Meat permitted by Shakespeare's play (6) |
| AHORSE | When repeated, cry by Shakespeare's Richard III |
| BANQUO | The Thane of Lochaber in Shakespeare's Macbeth (6) |
| GLAMIS | Shakespeare's Macbeth was known as the thane of ... (6) |
| BEGUNK | Trick Scottish king started first (6) |
| ROBERT | Scottish king to plunder English, right? (6) |
| DONALD | Scottish king to rip off foreign land (6) |
| AGAMEMNON | Greek king murdered by his wife Clytemnestra |
| RAN | 1985 Akira Kurosawa film partly inspired by Shakespeare's King Lear |
| KISSMEKATE | Musical with lyrics by Cole Porter first performed in 1948 and inspired by Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew (4,2,4) |
| TEMPEST | From the Latin for "time, season", a violent storm, such as that conjured up by Shakespeare's master magician Prospero; or, by extension, any great commotion, tumult or uproar (7) |
| EYEBALL | Part of the face first recorded by Shakespeare's Prospero (7) |
| SALADDAYS | Time of youthful inexperience, as coined by Shakespeare's Cleopatra |
| ASP | Snake called poor venomous fool by Shakespeare's Cleopatra |
| MALCOLM | Elder son of the murdered King Duncan in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) |
| OUTDAMNEDSPOTOUTISAY | Quote from Shakespeare's Macbeth, from Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene (3,6,4,3,1,3) |
| COMES | 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury, the second book in his Green Town Trilogy, whose title comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth (9,6,4,3,5) |
| THISWAY | 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury, the second book in his Green Town Trilogy, whose title comes from Shakespeare's Macbeth (9,6,4,3,5) |
