Merchant of Venice Act IV

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Across
  1. 1. foods
  2. 5. payment that “Balthazar” requested from Bassanio
  3. 7. discredit
  4. 9. city where Bellario lives
  5. 11. Portia’s cousin, a prestigious doctor of the law
  6. 13. true identity of “Balthazar’s” clerk
  7. 16. persistent annoyance
  8. 18. plead, implore
  9. 19. a portion, a fraction of the whole
  10. 20. stubborn, unyielding
Down
  1. 2. a foreigner
  2. 3. a small amount
  3. 4. to give thanks to
  4. 6. to sharpen
  5. 8. true identity of the lawyer called “Balthazar”
  6. 10. mean spirited
  7. 12. heir to all of Shylock’s wealth after his death
  8. 14. man who nearly loses a pound of flesh
  9. 15. man who presides over the trial
  10. 17. to reduce the severity of, to alleviate