| LADIES | Wives of lords |
| HOWARD | Name of several Dukes of Norfolk, including the third, who was an uncle of two wives of King Henry VIII (6,6) |
| THOMAS | Name of several Dukes of Norfolk, including the third, who was an uncle of two wives of King Henry VIII (6,6) |
| NICOLAI | Co-founder of the Vienna Philharmonic who composed an operatic version of Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor (7) |
| CATHERINE | Name of three wives of Henry VIII |
| SEIS | Number of wives of Enrique VIII |
| ANNE | Either of two wives of Henry VIII |
| SIX | Number of wives of Henry VIII |
| PISTOL | A follower of Falstaff in the William Shakespeare play The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
| CATHERINEPARR | The last of the six wives of Henry VIII |
| ELEANOR | Name shared by the wives of Henry II, Henry III and Edward I of England |
| PARR | Catherine -; the last of the six wives of Henry VIII (4) |
| BARDOLPH | A follower of Falstaff in 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (8) |
| ANNARBOR | Michigan city named after the wives of both its founders, and local stands of oak trees |
| ANNEBOLEYN | One of the wives of Henry VIII (4,6) |
| MISTRESSPAGE | Name one of the Merry Wives of Windsor. |
| ANNEOFCLEVES | Fourth of the six wives of Henry VIII, whom he reputedly described as 'a Flanders Mare' (4,2,6) |
| ACTAEON | This hunter, a grandson of Cadmus, saw Diana bathing, which meant she turned him into a stag that was then killed by his dogs. In The Merry Wives of Windsor (act 2, scene 1), Pistol says, "Like Sir __ |
| AUNTIES | Sisters of parents or wives of uncles (7) |
| POTATO | A root vegetable with a jacket or one of the yam-like tubers wished by Falstaff to rain from the sky in The Merry Wives of Windsor (6) |
