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Staging Shakespeare Crossword Puzzle

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Number 10 (of 20) in a series of crosswords produced for November's Quiz Writing Challenge. A personal goal is to create a crossword for every Fun Trivia category. There is a theme which seasoned solvers should spot swiftly. Enjoy!
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      1. Sibling of Viola in "Twelfth Night": her twin brother (9)
      7. Syphilis; "A ____ on him! He's a cat still" [All's Well That Ends Well] (3)
      8. Stretch the truth; "Should I ____, madam?" [Antony and Cleopatra] (3)
      10. Stage direction: "____ pirates" [Pericles, Prince of Tyre] (5)
      11. Shakespeare's contemporary, Christopher Marlowe wrote the play "The Jew of ____" (5)
      12. Slackening; "Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ____ to humble love" [Othello] (3)
      14. Sister and wife of Jupiter, the goddess ____ appears in a masque in "The Tempest" (4)
      16. Small fly; "followed him, till he had melted from the smallness of a ____, to air;" [Cymbeline] (4)
      17. Situation: bellows-mender; Francis ____ appears in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (5)
      18. Spellbound; "His figure and his heat. I was much ____ in this" [Troilus and Cressida] (4)
      20. Sweater eater; "thus hath the candle singed the ____" [The Merchant of Venice] (4)
      22. Shelter; "In the ____ of the most deadly boar" [Richard III] (3)
      24. Single out, appoint; "That you ____ no other king but him" [King Henry VI, Part I] (5)
      26. Saturninus' wife Tamora ____ pie containing the remains of her sons in "Titus Andronicus" (4,1)
      28. Shed tears; "And twenty times made pause to ____ and weep" [Richard III] (3)
      29. Smack; "And ____ me well, or I'll knock your knave's pate" [The Taming of the Shrew] (3)
      30. "Some road" (whore) in "Henry IV, Part 2": Dorothy "Doll" ____, prostitute at Boar's Head Inn (9)

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      1. Scion; "I am no villain. I am the youngest ____ of Sir Rowland de Boys" [As You Like It] (3)
      2. Sir Piers of ____ murdered the deposed King Richard in "Richard II" (5)
      3. Sept. 28, 1602: Shakespeare purchased a cottage and quarter ____ of land in Stratford-upon-Avon (4)
      4. Sepulchre; William Shakespeare's ____ is located in Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon (4)
      5. Sum up: "He was a man, take him for ____ all, I shall not look upon his like again" [Hamlet] (3,2)
      6. Small insect; "Thou flea, thou ____, thou winter-cricket thou!" [The Taming of the Shrew] (3)
      7. Sworn false statements; "At lover's ____ / They say Jove laughs" [Romeo and Juliet] (9)
      9. Supposed meeting place in "Henry IV" plays, the Boar's Head Inn, ____, London (9)
      13. Servant of the Pander and the Bawd in "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" (5)
      15. Steadily; "Namely some love that drew him ____ from home" [The Comedy of Errors] (3)
      16. Star; "Never so rich a ____ / Was set in worse than gold" [The Merchant of Venice] (3)
      19. Shepherdess ____ is among the country folk in the Forest of Arden [As You Like It] (5)
      21. Strange; "King Lear is...the most ____ and outrageous play Shakespeare ever wrote" D. Littlejohn (5)
      22. Show signs of life; "Why do you ____ so early?" [Pericles] (4)
      23. Slangy assent slightly longer than that used by the Bard (4)
      25. Situation, status; "However God or fortune cast my ____" [Richard II] (3)
      27. Seated; "I have ____ too long" [Coriolanus] (3)