| MANATTHEWHEEL | The new "Hamlet", a portrayal of character who's in control |
| LORAX | Kiddie lit character who's in charge of the Brown Bar-ba-loots |
| ORGANGRINDER | Alternatively, mob goes before TV judge to reveal who's in control (5, 7) |
| LENDANEAR | Follow Mark Antony with new Hamlet, perhaps cutting another tragic figure |
| NURSE | Job title of character who is played by (5) |
| RITA | First name of character who lives at 10a Coronation Street (4) |
| NICODEMUS | Not a mendacious sort of character who visited at night (9) |
| ECCEHOMO | In art, a portrayal of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns |
| BORROWER | A debtor one shouldn't be, according to a saying taken from Polonius in Hamlet a library patron; or, one of the tiny people who pinch from the humans in tales by Mary Norton (8) |
| WATTEAU | French artist whose paintings include Pleasures of Love, Pilgrimage to Cythera (a portrayal of his fete |
| ECCE | ___ homo, a portrayal of Christ crowned with thorns (4) |
| OSRIC | Minor character in Hamlet, a courtier |
| YORICK | In Shakespeare's Hamlet, "a fellow of infinite jest" (6) |
| DOROTHYGALE | Character who, in a movie released nationally 70 years ago today, sang the ballad formed by the firs |
| MRKRABS | Animated character who, in one episode, fills out a crossword with only the word money |
| ROCKYBALBOA | 1976 title character who, in a one-take scene, cracks and then drinks five raw eggs for breakfast |
| ASIDE | Hamlet's 'A little more than kin, and less than kind,' e.g. |
| AVERSION | A portrayal in horror |
| PICTURE | Ripe cut-out for a portrayal |
| ROLE | Soundly go round a portrayal |
