11 June 2015

Crossword by Boffles

Celebration of the Bard

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Across

    1  1 November 1611 for the The Tempest (4,4)

    7  Malvolio was tricked into behaving in such a manner (2-2-2)

    8  Macbeth became its Thane (6)

    9  Montague and Lady Montague would have been Juliet’s if she was ever able to marry Romeo (2-4)

  10  6dn babbled at his end of green fields rather than this kind (7)

  13  Separated from her twin in a shipwreck (5)

  14  Hamlet does this in his madness (5)

  18  The soothsayer was a bird of this kind for Julius Caesar (7)

  19  Not always comic (6)

  21  He has one in Westminster Abbey (6)

  22  Such was his genius (6)

  23  Prospero with his magic powers was this (8)

 

Down

    1  Oberon’s 17dn (4)

    2  Could he write a play like this? (2,4)

    3  Titania slept on on a bank whereon the wild thyme blows when she felt like this (6)

    4  Descriptive of 1dn (5)

    5  Rightful Italian home of Prospero (6)

    6  Drinking companion of Prince Hal but later rejected by him (8)

  11  Men are this month when they woo, a colder one when they wed (5)

  12  The good daughter (8)

  15  Surely more than two well-mannered males in this city? (6)

  16  He often used this type of licence (6)

  17  Often also called a fool in the plays (6)

  18  Not all are scepter’d or set in a silver sea (5)

  20  Close relative of 12dn (4)