Clues to the 20 words for the Shakespeare Crossword Puzzle:
(Puzzle answers are at the very bottom of this page.)

ACROSS:

• 1 - a writer of plays; dramatist
• 4 - person who composed or recited poems with music
• 5 - poem of 14 lines expressive of a single idea
• 7 - forebearance shown toward an enemy or other person; benevolent
• 8 - theatrical art/literature with vivid conflicting emotions
• 10 - humorous elements of drama or of literature
• 11 - creative talent or ability
• 16 - passing reasonable bounds of right or decency
• 17 - a malicious retaliation for an injury or wrong; reprisal
• 18 - without limits or bounds; endless
• 19 - the complex of principles that controls or inhibits action

  DOWN:
  

• 2 - fickle; changeable
• 3 - self-restraint; self-denial
• 5 - practice of represention by something else
• 6 - the lamentable, fatal elements of drama/literature
• 9 - a lone speech in a drama with disclosure of innermost thoughts
• 12 - desire to obtain or achieve success with exceptional effort
• 13 - a large kettle or vat used for boiling
• 14 - record of past events and times
• 15 - completion, settlement or conclusion of conflict

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ANSWERS across: 1 - playwright, 4 - bard, 5 - sonnet, 7 - mercy, 8 - drama, 10 - comedies, 11 - imagination, 16 - outrageous, 17 - revenge, 18 - infinite, 19 - conscience
ANSWERS down: 2 - inconstant, 3 - abstinence, 5 - symbolism, 6 - tragedies, 9 - soliloquy, 12 - ambition, 13 - cauldron, 14 - histories, 15 - resolution
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