| EURIPIDES | Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote the tragedy Medea (9) |
| ARISTOPHANES | Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote The Wasps and The Birds |
| OVID | Roman poet whose works include the tragedy Medea (4) |
| OSCAR | _ Wilde, 19th-century poet and playwright who wrote the tragedy Salome (5) |
| LEAR | Shakespeare wrote the tragedy King ___ (4) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek dramatist who wrote "Oedipus Tyrannus" |
| AESCHYLUS | Greek dramatist who wrote Prometheus Bound |
| EUMENIDES | Greek dramatist sheds tear for men observing Furies |
| SORCERESS | One's Medea, Alcestis or Ceres, switching parts (9) |
| AMYMANSON | Scottish actress who played Medea in 2010s BBC series Atlantis (3,6) |
| MENANDER | Ancient Greek dramatist whose only surviving play is Dyskolos |
| SAINTOMER | Alice Diop film inspired by a real French court case and by the story of Medea |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet who wrote of the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha in The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| MARGARET | Who is the widow of King Henry VI and confronted by Richard III in the funeral cortege in The Tragedy of King Richard the Third? |
| MACBETH | The Tragedy of ___ tragedy by Shakespeare about a Scottish general seeking the throne |
| ALCESTIS | The oldest surviving play by the Greek dramatist Euripides (8) |
| COLCHIS | In Greek mythology, it was the home of Medea and the destination of the Argonauts, a place of great wealth. In The Merchant of Venice (act 1, scene 1), Bassanio says, "Hang on her temples like a golde |
| NAHUM | Forename of a Poet Laureate and dramatist who re-imagined the tragedy of King Lear with a happy ending (5) |
| MOOR | Shakespeare... The Tragedy of Othello, the ___ of Venice |
| DENZEL | _ Washington, star of the 2021 film The Tragedy Of Macbeth (6) |
