| BANQUO | Scottish general whose ghost haunts Macbeth in the William Shakespeare tragedy of that name |
| MACDUFF | Character who kills Macbeth in the William Shakespeare play of that name (7) |
| CORIOLANUS | Legendary Roman general of the 5th Century BC, the inspiration for a Shakespeare tragedy of the same name (10) |
| TITUSANDRONICUS | Shakespeare tragedy of gory revenge |
| GLAMISCASTLE | Residence of Macbeth in the Shakespeare play of the same name (6,6) |
| MACBETH | The Tragedy of ___ tragedy by Shakespeare about a Scottish general seeking the throne |
| DUNCAN | King murdered by Macbeth in the tragedy by William Shakespeare (6) |
| MALCOLM | Scottish king who succeeded Macbeth in the Shakespeare play |
| HILL | Novelist, playwright and children's author whose ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted into a film of the same name with Daniel Radcliffe (4) |
| TROILUSANDCRESSIDA | William Shakespeare tragedy published in 1609 set during the Trojan War |
| CRESSIDA | William Shakespeare tragedy published in 1609 set during the Trojan War (7,3,8) |
| TROILUSAND | William Shakespeare tragedy published in 1609 set during the Trojan War (7,3,8) |
| ACT | Shakespeare killed Macbeth in the fifth one |
| JOHNSTON | General whose death in the Battle of Shiloh was a major loss to the Confederacy |
| MLI | Year in the reign of Macbeth, in Scottish history |
| LYSANDER | Spartan general whose defeat of the Athenians bought an end to the Peloponnesian War (8) |
| HANNIBAL | Carthaginian general whose crossing of the Alps by elephant is depicted in a painting by Turner (8) |
| ROMEO | William Shakespeare tragedy set in Verona (5,3,6) |
| THEREWASACROOKEDMAN | Nursery rhyme possibly about the Scottish general Sir Alexander Leslie |
| JACOBMARLEY | Scrooge's former partner whose ghost appears in 'A Christmas Carol' (5,6) |
