| AFUNNYTHING | Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical based on the life of the slave Pseudolus, ... Happened On The Way |
| GYPSY | Sondheim Broadway musical starring Ethel Merman |
| COMPANY | Stephen Sondheim Broadway show; 1971 Tony Award for Best Musical winner (7) |
| MOSTEL | Zero, comic actor whose film roles included Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (6) |
| AFUNNY | Sondheim musical, ... Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum (1,5) |
| TOTHEFORUM | A Funny Thing Happened On The Way ____, stage and film musical by Stephen Sondheim (2,3,5) |
| SONDHEIM | Composer of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" |
| FORUM | Popular musical "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ___" |
| AMAID | "Everybody Ought to Have ___" ("A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" song) |
| LANE | 1996 Tony winner for "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" |
| ROME | "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" setting |
| THING | "A Funny ___ Happened on the Way to the Forum" |
| TOGA | "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" wrap |
| WILLIAM | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| WILBERFORCE | M.P., leader of the movement for the abolition of the slave trade (7,11) |
| HEAVEN | Something Happened On The Way To ___, hit for 9A (6) |
| QUEENBEE | The female reproductive leader of a colony of honey-producing apians, essential to the life of the hive (5,3) |
| SPARTACUS | The most notable leader of the slaves in the Third Servile War, a major uprising against the Roman Republic (9) |
| ROBROY | Novel by Walter Scott based on the life of the outlaw and later hero known as the Scottish Robin Hood (3,3) |
| LITTLEIRONIES | Life's ___ 1894 collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which touches upon both rural life and the life of the bourgeois: 2 wds. |