| DEKKER | Thomas ___, Elizabethan dramatist whose works include The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) and The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622) (6) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher _, Elizabethan dramatist whose works included Tamburlaine The Great and The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (7) |
| THOMASDEKKER | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| SOCIETY | 'There is one great _ alone on earth,/The noble Living, and the noble Dead' (William Wordsworth The Prelude (1850) bk.11) (7) |
| ONEARTH | "There is / One great society alone ____, / The noble Living, and the noble Dead" (Wordsworth) |
| THOMASKYD | Elizabethan dramatist, the author of The Spanish Tragedy (6,3) |
| ELVES | The - and the Shoemaker ; story in the Ladybird Books series adapted from one of Grimms' Fairy Tales (5) |
| HILLIARD | Nicholas ___, Elizabethan goldsmith and painter who raised the art of miniature portraiture to its highest level (8) |
| LASTORDERS | The shoemaker's model demands closing words from the bar (4,6) |
| DRAKE | Francis ___, Elizabethan navigator; vice-admiral of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588 (5) |
| KYD | Elizabethan dramatist Thomas |
| LASTGASP | React in horror after the shoemaker's model has a final desperate effort (4-4) |
| EXEUNT | Latin stage direction commonly used by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists; '(they) go out' (6) |
| LASTDITCH | Final desperate attempt to dump the shoemaker's model first (4-5) |
| PEELE | Elizabethan dramatist |
| CHRISTOPHER | Elizabethan dramatist, ... Marlowe |
| ELITIST | Elizabethan dramatist is extremely snobbish (7) |
| LAST | That's final! It's for the shoemaker! (4) |
| HOSE | Doublet and ___ (Elizabethan costume) |
| LASTS | Endures so keeps the shoemakers happy (5) |
