| 100% | BARD | 4 | The __: Shakespeare |
| 91% | BARD | 4 | The ___, Shakespeare's nickname |
| 88% | BROADWAYMUSICAL | 15 | The Shakespeare-inspired "West Side Story," e.g. |
| 87% | STAGE | 5 | The world, to Shakespeare? |
| 86% | BARD | 4 | Shakespeare, the ___ |
| 85% | TEMPEST | 7 | The __, Shakespeare play with Prospero and Caliban |
| 85% | CAPULET | 7 | Juliet's surname in the Shakespeare play |
| 85% | BARD | 4 | The ___ of Avon (William Shakespeare) |
| 85% | AVON | 4 | The Bard of ___ (William Shakespeare) |
| 83% | PURITAN | 7 | 1606 play of the Shakespeare apocrypha, with "The" |
| 83% | MONTAGUE | 8 | Romeo's family name in the Shakespeare tale |
| 83% | OPHELIA | 7 | Character in the Shakespeare tragedy "Hamlet" who drowns |
| 83% | AVON | 4 | The Bard of ___ (nickname for Shakespeare) |
| 83% | BARD | 4 | The ___ of Avon (nickname for Shakespeare) |
| 83% | VERONA | 6 | The Two Gentlemen of __, by Shakespeare |
| 83% | III | 3 | The Richard in a Shakespeare title |
| 83% | ACTS | 4 | The five of every Shakespeare play |
| 83% | OFVENICE | 8 | The Merchant __; Shakespeare's moneylender play |
| 83% | TAVERN | 6 | The Boar's Head, in Shakespeare |
| 82% | NEWPLACE | 8 | Name of the Shakespeares' family home in Stratford |
| 82% | SHES | 4 | ___ the Man (2006 Shakespeare adaptation) |
| 82% | AVON | 4 | Shakespeare, the Bard of ___ |
| 82% | BARD | 4 | Shakespeare, the ___ of Avon |
| 81% | PROSPERO | 8 | The protagonist of Shakespeare's The Tempest |
| 80% | MERCHANT | 8 | The __ of Venice, a Shakespeare's comedy |
| 80% | KINSMEN | 7 | The Two Noble __, lesser-known Shakespeare play |
| 80% | BARD | 4 | The ___ of Avon (another name for Shakespeare) |
| 80% | WILLIAM | 7 | The first name of Shakespeare and Shatner |
| 80% | WHOSTHERE | 9 | The first line of Shakespeare's Hamlet |
| 80% | ILLYRIA | 7 | The setting for Shakespeare's Twelfth Night |