| NIGHTSDREAM | This 1935 film was a great version of the Shakespeare classic, A Midsummer ... (5'1,5) |
| ANNIEOAKLEY | Famous sharpshooter played in this 1935 film by Barbara Stanwyck (5,6) |
| BOYSTOWN | Spencer Tracy gave his Oscar for this 1935 film to Father Flanagan, the real-life head of the title organization |
| JAMESCAGNEY | "Yankee Doodle Dandy" Oscar winner who played Bottom in the 1935 film version of "A Midsummer Night' |
| OPPENHEIMER | This atomic-bomb film was a big summer hit (11) |
| SHREW | Complete the title of the Shakespeare play: The Taming Of The ___ (5) |
| VIMYRIDGE | The battle of which, in April 1917, was a great victory (though at a high cost) for Canadian troops against the German defenders (4,5) |
| EMERSON | "Great books and great thoughts rule the world." He was a great exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Who is this? |
| AFAREWELLTOARMS | Novel by Ernest Hemingway, who was a great admirer of the Spanish way of life and a regular visitor to the country (1,8,2,4) |
| WHEEL | This was a great invention but the second one was even better when it comes round to it (5) |
| URHAMLET | Lost manuscript said to be the source of a Shakespeare classic |
| ODYSSEAN | Relating to a literary classic; a description of the journeys of some refugees |
| ISADORA | Which Vanessa Redgrave film was a biopic of the dancer, Miss Duncan? (7) |
| AUSTERLITZ | The battle of _(aka battle of the Three Emperors), fought on 2 December 1805; it was a great victory for Napoleon (10) |
| ANTONIO | Title character of the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice, written around 1596 (7) |
| DEAFEN | It was a great idea, fencing, but it could make you a bit hard of hearing (6) |
| OTELLO | Verdi reworking of a Shakespeare classic |
| MODERN | _ classic, a contemporary description of the Mazda MX-5 (6) |
| SERIES | The Fall Classic a.k.a. The World ___ |
| PIRANHA | Which 1978 horror film was a spoof of Jaws? (7) |
