Across
- 1. Lost, but crucial
- 11. Messenger of secrets and missteps
- 12. Two lines, one thought, often a door
- 14. The price of unchecked passion
- 18. A promise made, not always freely
- 21. Love’s first defiance
- 22. Law incarnate in a city of disorder
- 23. The cost of choosing love over name
- 26. Worn like a mask at the ball
- 28. A rhythmic heartbeat beneath the language
- 31. What the friar offers, but never finishes
- 32. Cleansing sorrow through shared tragedy
- 35. What Paris never sees from Juliet
- 38. Heightened emotion with tragic flair
- 39. Action without forethought
- 40. Queen Mab’s mouthpiece, undone by a scratch
- 46. When daggers answer prayers
- 49. A noble flaw that collapses fate
- 50. Sleep, not death—but not enough
- 51. Innocence that invites tragedy
- 52. The fuse of the tragedy
- 55. As bright as love, as sharp as steel
- 58. Loving hate and heavy lightness, for instance
- 59. “Ancient,” but still fresh
- 61. He speaks in verse but acts in haste
- 63. Ancestry stained by vendetta
- 66. Two houses, no bridge
- 69. Hot-blooded embodiment of family pride
- 72. Romeo’s outlook after exile
- 74. Inherited hatred without origin
- 75. Love without depth, quick to burn
- 79. Your past you cannot shed
- 81. Personal war passed through generations
- 82. Juliet’s last word
- 83. Where endings and reunions meet
- 86. Love’s true consequence
- 88. Signals safety in song
- 89. A dance of masks and mistaken truths
- 91. A truth said aloud, unheard
- 95. The scales of love and hate
- 96. Romeo’s heart at first glance
- 97. Tybalt’s death warrant
- 102. Plans within plans, rarely pure
- 104. Love exaggerated beyond earth
- 108. What Romeo lacked, fatally
- 110. Desire without delay
- 111. Too quick to stab or to kiss
- 112. Dark hints in bright moments
- 113. Love’s form, bound in fourteen lines
- 114. The friar tries, fate denies
- 115. Family legacy, for better or worse
- 116. Too late to heal, too real to ignore
Down
- 2. Not death, but worse to a lover
- 3. Mercutio’s joke, then death
- 4. Tybalt’s fuel, Romeo’s trap
- 5. Marked by destiny, doomed by the heavens
- 6. A whisper that breaks theatrical walls
- 7. Music that mourns
- 8. Meaning layered in moonlight and blades
- 9. Night, death, and love made human
- 10. Guides and curses
- 13. Ten beats to frame deep passions
- 15. Mercutio’s greatest weapon
- 16. Sought too late by too few
- 17. The foundation and the flaw
- 18. Bearer of news, fatal in timing
- 19. The Nurse betrays it, Juliet holds it
- 20. Love’s stage, seen by stars
- 24. Laughter laced with tears
- 25. Driven by feeling, not reason
- 27. Host of revels, master of wrath
- 29. Words whispered to a wall of stone
- 30. Addressing the absent, as though they speak
- 33. The spine of stagecraft and structure
- 34. Love’s ultimate cost
- 36. Fourfold unit in poetic architecture
- 37. Romeo, when grief devours reason
- 40. Love’s proof, paid in blood
- 41. Locks the friar, frees the knife
- 42. She is unseen but pivotal in rejection
- 43. Sings of parting
- 44. Romeo’s oath rejected
- 45. Where thoughts override line breaks
- 47. Final chamber of passion and loss
- 48. A social structure that dooms Juliet
- 53. A wedding in secret, a vow in danger
- 54. Romeo and Juliet’s true religion
- 56. Benvolio to Romeo, the Nurse to Juliet
- 57. One thing standing for another
- 60. A name by any other, yet still deadly
- 62. Love’s strategist trapped by time
- 64. Light and dark in one breath
- 65. A servant’s error, a letter undelivered
- 67. Exile framed as mercy
- 68. Words twisted against intentions
- 70. When lovers step across imposed lines
- 71. The price all characters pay
- 73. A choice that breeds confusion
- 75. Painted with language, not brush
- 76. A whisper to another work
- 77. When choice is only an illusion
- 78. Grief shaped into ritual
- 80. Juliet’s strength, seen and said
- 84. Between truth and appearance
- 85. Meaning beneath words
- 87. Truth found in contradiction
- 90. Repeated sounds, soft or sharp
- 92. Where loyalty and love combust
- 93. Honor demanded by name
- 94. Tybalt’s humor, red and raging
- 98. Father to passion, blind to peril
- 99. Feelings buried by duty
- 100. Sun for a woman, lips for temples
- 101. Seeks peace but swims in blood
- 103. A resting place for the exiled and the tragic
- 105. Mediator cloaked in holy contradictions
- 106. What love does to family order
- 107. Love over God, in Verona’s eyes
- 109. A merchant’s solution to grief
