| Clue | Answer |
| What synonym for poison cure completes this Karl Marx quote: 'The only ___ to mental suffering is physical pain.' | |
| This French model and sex symbol was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's essay, 'The Lolita Syndrome' | |
| A period of decay and decline marked by senility, as possibly suffered by King Lear | |
| A Puccini opera based on a play by Carlo Gozzi about its title princess | |
| Greek playwright who wrote 'The Frogs' and 'Lysistrata' | |
| This is the first reindeer mentioned in Clement Moore's 'A Visit From Saint Nicholas' | |
| Senseless talk or writing, that lent its name to a word game | |
| The family name of sisters Elinor and Marianne, in Jane Austen's 'Sense and Sensibility' | |
| Like the societies in 'Brave New World' and '1984' | |
| Greek historian, the 'Father of History,' noted for writing 'The Histories' | |
| Absurdist Beckett play with Vladimir and Estragon | |
| Doris Leslie's book '___ Flight' has this green August birthstone filling the blank | |
| The Devil in Goethe's 'Faust' | |
| Website with the tagline 'News for nerds, stuff that matters' | |
| Author of plays such as 'Arcadia' and 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead' | |
| The author of 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Thin Man' | |
| Gertrude's Act 3 Scene 2 complaint: 'The lady ___ protest too much' | |
| A usually short interesting story | |
| This author's 'The Berlin Stories' became the musical 'Cabaret' | |