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Shakespeare Words Crossword Puzzle

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It is claimed that Shakespeare added or adapted 422 words to the English lexicon. Here are but a few (Clues marked "S"). Others just look like Shakespeare words...
Author: 1nn1 - Diff: Harder

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    • Complete Clue List

      Across
      1. Dog screeching
      5. Horse's feeding receptacle
      9. Acceptable
      10. Everyone participates (3-2)
      11. Urge
      12. Fix in place
      14. Roman days
      15. Standing in front of an animal{s} to steer them in a certain direction (7-3)
      19. In a lively manner ("Hamlet" Act 3 Scene 2)
      20. Year the Korean War started in Roman numerals
      22. Synthetic substance, flexes without rupture
      25. Pilots
      27. Pleasant cooking smell
      28. Pertaining to seizures, describes a person who suffers from them (S)
      29. Fleshy part of the hearing instrument (S)
      30. Crazy person (S) (informal)

      Down

      1. Confabulates
      2. Eswatini currency (No connection to Shakespeare)
      3. Comprehend
      4. Arbiter ("Antony and Cleopatra" Act 3 Scene 4) (2-7)
      5. Benign skin lesions
      6. Final performance before retirement
      7. Very light wood
      8. Common people (S) (sometimes seen as 2 words ) (6,4)
      13. Location of where one was brought into the world (S)
      16. Resident of a certain Croatian coastline (S) or a firehouse dog
      17. Musical ensemble (large)
      18. Paper chewed, rolled, used as missile
      21. Silver
      23. French love
      24. Inexpensive (S)
      26. Dull but persistent pain