| 100% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love, in a Shakespeare play |
| 100% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love in a Shakespeare play |
| 64% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's surname in the Shakespeare play |
| 64% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love in Shakespeare |
| 64% | FIE | 3 | Disapproving cry in a Shakespeare's play |
| 63% | ABIE | 4 | Rose's love in a 1922 play |
| 63% | ABIE | 4 | Rose's love in a 1920s play |
| 63% | SOFTA | 5 | "Upon so ___ subject as myself!" (Juliet's line in a Shakespeare play): 2 wds. |
| 62% | ROMEO | 5 | Juliet's love, in Shakespeare |
| 61% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "commotion" that appears in a Shakespeare play's title |
| 61% | ABIE | 4 | Rosemary's love in a classic Anne Nichols play |
| 60% | HAMLET | 6 | Prince of Denmark in a Shakespeare play |
| 60% | CRESSIDA | 8 | Lover of Troilus in a Shakespeare play |
| 60% | ACT | 3 | One of five in a Shakespeare play |
| 60% | ACTI | 4 | First of five in a Shakespeare play |
| 59% | HAMLET | 6 | Skull-wielding prince in a Shakespeare play |
| 59% | TIMON | 5 | Athenian in a Shakespeare play |
| 59% | TEMPEST | 7 | Storm in a Shakespeare play |
| 59% | DIDST | 5 | Performed in a Shakespeare play? |
| 59% | ARIEL | 5 | Sprite in a Shakespeare play |
| 58% | ABIE | 4 | Rose's love, in a 1922 play |
| 58% | TIMON | 5 | Titular misanthrope in a Shakespeare play |
| 58% | ETTU | 4 | Dying words in a Shakespeare play |
| 58% | LEAR | 4 | Title king in a Shakespeare play |
| 58% | ARDEN | 5 | French forest in a Shakespeare play |
| 58% | ROMEO | 5 | 48-Across's partner in a Shakespeare play about lovers from rival families |
| 58% | JULIET | 6 | 45-Across's partner in a Shakespeare play about lovers from rival families |
| 57% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's family name in Shakespeare's play |
| 56% | TEMPEST | 7 | Event conjured up by Prospero in a Shakespeare play |
| 56% | PUCK | 4 | Jester in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" who loved to play pranks |