| 100% | TEMPEST | 7 | The __, Shakespeare play with Prospero and Caliban |
| 55% | MACBETH | 7 | Shakespeare play with the Three Witches |
| 54% | CYMBELINE | 9 | Shakespeare play with Imogen, Leonatus and Cloten |
| 49% | TWELFTH | 7 | __ Night, Shakespeare play with Viola and Olivia |
| 49% | WINTERSTALE | 11 | Shakespeare play, with "The" |
| 48% | CORIOLANUS | 10 | William Shakespeare play featuring the characters Volumnia and Virgilia |
| 48% | ORGAN | 5 | Instrument played with both the hands and the feet |
| 48% | LIED | 4 | Played fast and loose with the facts |
| 48% | AMIDSUMMER | 10 | & 6D William Shakespeare play featuring the characters Oberon and Titania |
| 48% | MEASUREFOR | 10 | & 21A William Shakespeare play featuring the characters Froth and Abhorson |
| 48% | MARR | 4 | Guitarist Johnny who played with The Smiths and Modest Mouse |
| 46% | ASYOULIKEIT | 11 | William Shakespeare play first published in 1623 featuring the characters Celia and Rosalind |
| 45% | SERGEI | 6 | Hockey's Fedorov who played with the Wings, Ducks, Blue Jackets and Caps |
| 45% | THETEMPEST | 10 | William Shakespeare stage play featuring the characters Miranda and Ariel |
| 44% | TEMPEST | 7 | Shakespeare play that starts with a storm, with "The" |
| 44% | TEMPEST | 7 | Shakespeare play that begins with a storm, with "The" |
| 44% | PURITAN | 7 | 1606 play of the Shakespeare apocrypha, with "The" |
| 43% | KINGJOHN | 8 | The Life and Death of —, stage play by William Shakespeare first published in 1623 |
| 43% | WILLY | 5 | With 33-Across, candymaker played by Johnny Depp in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" |
| 43% | LYNNE | 5 | Guitarist Jeff who played with ELO and the Traveling Wilburys |
| 43% | OTHELLO | 7 | Shakespeare play with a fateful handkerchief |
| 43% | BASSOON | 7 | Woodwind instrument with a double reed playing in the tenor and bass ranges |
| 41% | TEMPEST | 7 | Shakespeare's last play, with "The" |
| 41% | DELLA | 5 | With 37-Across, "Touched by an Angel" actress who played a landlady on "Chico and the Man" |
| 41% | ASYOU | 5 | __ Like It, Shakespeare play with Rosalind |
| 41% | OEDIPUSREX | 10 | Play with the Sphinx |
| 41% | JAMS | 4 | Plays with the band |