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Shakespeare

Hard · 15×15 · 20 words
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  1. 1. The humor of Tybalt that leads to a drawing of swords
  2. 7. The mistress of the weird sisters' charms
  3. 8. Whose eyes are nothing like the sun?
  4. 10. Cymbeline's daughter who found a cave and a lost brother
  5. 12. Heavily armed infantry from the Western Isles mentioned in Macbeth
  6. 15. Hamlet's heavy burdens for those who'd bear them
  7. 17. The fairy queen who loved a long-eared weaver
  8. 18. A motley fool who uses his wit like a stalking-horse

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  1. 1. The blackening stain that even virtue cannot escape, per the Dane
  2. 2. Robin Goodfellow's more mischievous alias
  3. 3. The king who sought a little western flower's juice
  4. 4. A king's spirit doomed for a certain term to walk the night
  5. 5. A mobile forest that spells doom for a usurper
  6. 6. A short-tailed dog or a Rosalind-sized axe
  7. 9. The starting line and the finish line on the Avon
  8. 10. To turn the green sea red with guilty hands
  9. 11. She sang of a willow tree before the pillow fell
  10. 13. The cold pillar of Rome who outlived the Egyptian fire
  11. 14. He has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much
  12. 16. The green-eyed monster's architect and Othello's undoing

Shakespeare

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  1. 1. The heiress of Belmont who masqueraded as a doctor of laws
  2. 4. An aging monarch who divided his kingdom based on flattery
  3. 5. Shipwrecked twin who served a Duke while mourning a brother
  4. 7. A queen who briefly fell in love with a man with an ass's head
  5. 10. The prestigious title often bestowed upon the playwright himself
  6. 11. Fourteen lines that compare a friend to a summer's day
  7. 12. The melancholy prince who couldn't quite make up his mind

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  1. 1. Robin Goodfellow's more common, mischievous pseudonym
  2. 2. She fled to the forest disguised as a boy named Ganymede
  3. 3. Setting for a pair of star-crossed lovers and their feuding kin
  4. 6. A Scottish general who thought he was immune to man born of woman
  5. 8. The fiery Capulet known as the Prince of Cats
  6. 9. The river that flows through the Bard's birthplace

Shakespeare

Easy · 7×7 · 6 words
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  1. 1. The spirit of Hamlet's father
  2. 5. A person who creates literary works
  3. 6. Juliet's famous lover

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  1. 2. A weapon used in a theatrical duel
  2. 3. The famous nickname for Shakespeare
  3. 4. The raised platform where actors perform

Poetry

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  1. 1. Reading vertically reveals the hidden subject
  2. 4. Italian room where the verses reside
  3. 5. Four walls for a stanza to live in
  4. 9. A rhyming pair that often settles the score
  5. 10. A massive journey told in thousands of lines
  6. 12. Asking for hands when you want the whole person
  7. 14. The basic unit that keeps a poem walking
  8. 15. The steady pulse of a rising heart
  9. 17. Drinking a vowel to save the meter
  10. 18. A somber song for those who can no longer hear it
  11. 19. One verb to rule two different nouns

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  1. 2. The first eight lines of a Petrarchan problem
  2. 3. Two short steps followed by a giant leap
  3. 6. A series of same-sounding starts
  4. 7. The clicking and clacking of hard final sounds
  5. 8. A lyrical gift for the bride and groom
  6. 11. An internal echo of hollow vowels
  7. 13. Malayan echo where the second becomes the first
  8. 16. A lyrical toast to someone or something grand

Poetry

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  1. 1. A person who writes verses
  2. 5. The emphasis placed on certain syllables
  3. 7. To look at and understand written words

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  1. 2. A very long poem about heroic deeds
  2. 3. A formal poem consisting of fourteen lines
  3. 4. A short Japanese poem with seventeen syllables
  4. 6. A lyric poem written to praise a person or object

Painting & Sculpture

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  1. 1. Laying it on thick for a textured finish
  2. 3. White-wash start for a smooth wooden panel
  3. 7. A heavy fabric used to solicit votes or support art
  4. 10. An egg-cellent choice for a Renaissance binder
  5. 12. Hand roller used to spread ink, not a noisy donkey
  6. 13. Drawing on stone where oil and water disagree
  7. 17. Sooty pigment that creates a brown study
  8. 18. Flaxen output that makes oil paint flow
  9. 19. Sprayed on to keep charcoal from wandering

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  1. 2. Grand design that takes up the entire wall
  2. 4. Paper tool for smudging that might leave you confused
  3. 5. Ground glass that makes a kiln-fired scene
  4. 6. Warts-and-all approach to Roman portraiture
  5. 8. The green hue of aging copper
  6. 9. Metalwork technique that pushes its luck from the back
  7. 11. Fired up about working with hot wax
  8. 14. A Calder creation that refuses to move
  9. 15. A colorful board meeting for a painter
  10. 16. Covering the lily or the frame with gold

Painting & Sculpture

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  1. 2. Creating an image using nothing but tiny dots
  2. 6. White primer applied to prepare a surface for paint
  3. 7. Visual trickery used to deceive the eye into seeing 3D
  4. 8. Burnt wood used for sketchy preliminary studies
  5. 10. Metamorphic rock that Michelangelo saw figures inside
  6. 11. Art that does not attempt to represent external reality

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  1. 1. Baked earth used for ancient warriors and pottery
  2. 3. Pigment mixed with egg yolk used before oil took over
  3. 4. Style of painting done outside in the natural light
  4. 5. A wooden tripod that supports a creative vision
  5. 9. Artistic technique that involves painting on wet plaster

Painting & Sculpture

Easy · 7×7 · 7 words
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  1. 2. A wooden stand used to hold a canvas while an artist works
  2. 5. A hard stone often carved to create smooth white sculptures
  3. 7. A metal tool used by sculptors to carve stone or wood

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  1. 1. A decorative border that goes around the edges of a picture
  2. 3. A type of life painting featuring inanimate objects like fruit
  3. 4. A tool with bristles used to apply pigment to a surface
  4. 6. A type of slow-drying paint used by many classic masters

Dance

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  1. 4. A slender spirit of the air, often seen in white tulle
  2. 6. A mirror ball's favorite light show from the seventies
  3. 8. A cuban flirtation that moves the hips but keeps the head cool
  4. 9. To talk nonsense or to swing with high energy
  5. 10. A numerical homophone that stands out in a circle of tulle
  6. 14. Writing the steps for a script that never uses words
  7. 15. The sharp end of a dancer's ambition
  8. 16. A slow burn where balance is tested to the extreme
  9. 17. A leap that sounds like it belongs on a runway
  10. 18. A legal profession's limit where a ballerina finds support
  11. 19. To walk with a confident air, or a ribbon worn over the shoulder
  12. 20. Rising to the occasion on the tips of one's toes

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  1. 1. A story told by the silent, shimmering on silk
  2. 2. The final flourish before the curtain falls
  3. 3. A short jacket or a long, repetitive Ravel crescendo
  4. 4. The heartbeat of a Brazilian carnival
  5. 5. A storytelling hip motion that bypasses the vocal cords
  6. 7. A vibration of the shoulders that would worry a mechanic
  7. 11. A frantic spin believed to cure a spider's bite
  8. 12. Northern lights seen in the frozen movements of a dancer
  9. 13. A bullfight minus the bull, performed to a march
  10. 14. The art of fighting without ever landing a punch
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