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..Or Don't Cross the Bard! Just a dip into the world of Shakespeare, containing references to his work and the language of his time. Some clues contain the Act and Scene, for example 3-7. A few fillers included.
Author: windrush - Diff: Harder

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    • Complete Clue List

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      1. Play, "Two Gentlemen of ?" (6)
      4. He cleared the way for a procession by waving his sword (8)
      10. These started to circulate during the Bard's lifetime,sing.(9)
      11. Juliet's lover and briefly, husband (5)
      12. Now meaning clumsy person, Shakespeare's term for changeling (3)
      13. Caesar's wife, who begged him not to go to the Senate (9)
      14. Commoners, ? polloi (3)
      15. Tuvalu atoll (3)
      16. Avian, not mentioned by Shakespeare (8)
      18. Play, "... of Athens",(5)
      20. To recite a speech, as by Marc Antony or Portia (5)
      22. Formal term for an actor (8)
      24. "King Lear" 4-6 .."burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, fie,.. ?!" (3)
      26. "As you Like It" 5-3 "With a .. And a ho, and a ?-nonny-no" (3)
      27. Nine sided polygons, alt. (9)
      28. USA gun rights advocacy group, inits. (3)
      29. From "Much Ado About Nothing" "..Since summer first was ?"(5)
      31. Reference book containing synonyms (9)
      32. In "The Comedy of Errors" Aemilia is one of these, Pl. (8)
      33. In "Troilus and Cressida", a reference to ... lungs (6)

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      1. Main setting for play about a pound of flesh (6)
      2. Small wheel at the tip of a spur (5)
      3. Antony and Cleopatra 2-7, "Let ... hear we bid a loud farewell" (7)
      5. Greek myth mentioned in 1A (4,3,7)
      6. In "The Merchant of Venice", Shylock claims a pound of flesh as ?.(7)
      7. Fluid containing white blood cells (5)
      8. Inhabitant of the largest Dodecanese island (7)
      9. Shakespeare's "Globe" was one (4,3,7)
      17. In "Antony and Cleopatra"3-13 "I will ask Antony. Sir, sir, thou art so ..." (5)
      19. Wild herb mentioned in Shakespeare (6,3)
      20. Sad heroine of "Hamlet" (7)
      21. The title character of a play or novel i.e. 'Hamlet' Pl. (7)
      23. Cleopatra was the last of these (7)
      25. "Do .. .. ? and not as I do" (2,1,3)
      30. White church vestment (3)