Printable Shakespeare Crosswords

Challenge your knowledge of the Bard with our Shakespeare crossword puzzles, featuring clues from his greatest plays and timeless sonnets.

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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

Medium · 11×11 · 13 words
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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
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