| THETAMINGOFTHESHREW | Shakespeare's play with the tinker Christopher Sly |
| THETAMINGOF | William Shakespeare play featuring the character Christopher Sly first printed in 1623 (3,6,2,3,5) |
| THESHREW | William Shakespeare play featuring the character Christopher Sly first printed in 1623 (3,6,2,3,5) |
| SHREW | The Taming of the -; William Shakespeare's play with characters Petruchio and Katherina (5) |
| THETEMPEST | Shakespeare's play with Prospero and Caliban (3,7) |
| WELL | All's - That Ends -; William Shakespeare's play with characters including Bertram and Helena (4) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Writer of a comedy featuring Bottom the weaver, Flute the bellows-mender, Quince the carpenter, Snout the tinker, Snug the joiner and Starveling the tailor, who perform the play-within-the-play (11) |
| POTHOLE | A job for the tinker on the way |
| IRONMONGER | Ignore Norm the tinker (10) |
| SYNGE | "The Tinker's Wedding" playwright |
| KNIT | Unite some of the tinkers on the way up (4) |
| HOLLOW | The ____ Crown, BBC adaptation of Shakespeare's plays, with Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III (6) |
| EDIT | Play with the tracks in the studio |
| LEAR | "King ___" (play with the line "He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf...") |
| BEGFORPERCY | Whine "Please, PLEASE can I play with the green ' Thomas the Tank Engine' character?" |
| HOME | Fun ___ Broadway play with the first female writing team to win the Tony Award for Best Score |
| III | "Richard ___" (play with the opening line "Now is the winter of our discontent") |
| CHILDRENSHOUR | 1934 Lillian Hellman play, with "The" |
| WOMEN | 1936 Luce play, with "The" |
| RITZ | 1975 Rita Moreno play, with 'The' |
