This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Romeo and Juliet has 38 clues. Answers range from 3 to 12 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Servant of the Capulets; he and Gregory inadvertently renew the feud.
A person who makes and sells medicine and drugs; Romeo obtained a vial of poison from such a person.
Name of the friar who was unable to deliver Friar Laurence's message to Romeo.
Adjective used in the Prologue to described the ill-fated Romeo and Juliet.
When Lord Capulet sees Juliet in her death-like sleep, he says that Paris will not be her groom because Juliet has married _______________. (IV.iv.35-40).
Mercutio calls Tybalt the Prince of _________.
Romeo and Juliet is one of the greatest _____________ stories.
The tragic heroine of the play.
Number of days of action in the play.
Romeo's friend and relative of Prince Escalus; he engages in a duel when Romeo refuses to respond to insults; he is killed in this duel.
Town to which Romeo flees to avoid the death penalty.
Nephew of Lord Montague and good friend of Romeo. He attempts to stop the renewal of the feud. His name means good will.
Form of poetry popular in Elizabethan literature. Shakespeare uses it often, and he uses at Romeo and Juliet's first meeting.
Juliet's age.
A formal fight between two persons armed with deadly weapons to defend one's honor or to settle a dispute.
Juliet's confidant; old woman who has cared for Juliet since her birth.
Prince of Verona.
In Roman mythology, she is the goddess of dawn. "But all so soon as the all-cheering sun / Should in the farthest East begin to draw / The shady curtains from _____________'s bed" (I.i.125-27).
In mythology, the child of Hyperion; the sun god; term for any one of the race of giant deities overthrown by the Olympian gods. "And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels / From forth day's path and ___________'s burning wheels" (II.iii.3-4).
Type of pet that Juliet wishes she could make of Romeo and thus keep him near her. (See II.ii.77-78).
Juliet's family name.
The prince substituted this punishment for that of Romeo's death, provided Romeo was not caught in Verona; term for being exiled from one's home country; a noun.
A bitter, prolonged quarrel between families; there was a ___________ between the Capulets and Montagues.
A bitter, prolonged quarrel between families; there was a ___________ between the Capulets and Montagues.
Romeo's servant who brings to him the news of Juliet's (apparent) death.
Protagonist of the play.
Gold coin used by Romeo to buy the poison.
A young count and relative of the Prince; Capulet orders Juliet to marry him or to leave the household; Romeo is forced to kill him at the Capulet tomb.
City in northeastern Italy; primary setting of the play.
Confidant of Romeo; friar who marries Romeo and Juliet.
Nephew of Capulet's wife; rash and impetuous; kills Mercutio in a duel; Romeo kills him in a duel to avenge Mercutio.
Young girl Romeo believes he loves before he meets Juliet.
Romeo's family name.
An insulting gesture is to bite one's ________________. Sampson does this and begins the quarrel with the Montague servants.
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet ________________, / That I shall say good night till it be morrow" (II.ii.184-85).
"For never was a story of more ___________ / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (V.iii.309).
Queen of the fairies described at length by Mercutio in Act I, scene iv.
Songbird; bird that sings at break of day; when Romeo is preparing to leave for exile, he and Juliet debate whether the bird they hear is this type or a nightingale.