| GWYNETHPALTROW | ____ played Viola de Lesseps in Shakespeare in Love |
| PANAMACANAL | Waterway begun by Ferdinand de Lesseps in 1881 (6,5) |
| DVORAK | Composer who once played viola under Smetana |
| TWELFTHNIGHT | Shakespeare play in which 23, 24 across played Viola in the theatre (7,5) |
| VIOLA | __ De Lesseps, character played by Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love (5) |
| SHER | Antony ----, late actor who played Dr Moth in Shakespeare in Love (4) |
| DAMEJUDIIDEALACTRESS | Oscar's reaction to Dench in "Shakespeare in Love"? |
| JOSEPH | _ Fiennes, starred in Shakespeare In Love and The Merchant Of Venice (6) |
| GWYNETH | Actress who won an Academy Award for her work in Shakespeare In Love, ... Paltrow |
| JUDIDENCH | Actress whose eight minutes of screen time in Shakespeare in Love won her an Oscar |
| DENCH | Dame Judi _, actor who won an Oscar for her role in Shakespeare in Love (5) |
| SUEZ | Which great canal, completed in 1869, was built by the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, but acquired by the British six years later? (4) |
| ZEUS | A god of the Greeks, he upset de Lesseps' greatest achievement (4) |
| SUEZCANAL | Waterway constructed by Ferdinand de Lesseps (4,5) |
| NYC | Real Housewives setting for Luann de Lesseps: Abbr. |
| LUANN | De Lesseps of "The Real Housewives of New York City" |
| CABARET | "Life is a _" for Luann de Lesseps |
| RUSH | Geoffrey, actor who played Philip Henslowe in 1999 film Shakespeare In Love (4) |
| EVERETT | Rupert, actor who played Christopher Marlowe in the 1998 film Shakespeare In Love (7) |
| JULIA | Who turned down a lead role in Sleepless in Seattle and Shakespeare in Love? (5,7) |
