ANGELA CARTER, SHAKING A LEG — Sometimes professional wrestling is like... ballet,... sometimes like a crude morality play... decked out with... elements of antique theater,... hieratic posturing, menace, dread,... pain.... This is Theater of Cruelty played for laughs.
| A. | Polish-born novelist and dramatist (1880-1957) who wrote in Yiddish | ASCH |
| B. | Style embraced by Zola | NATURALISM |
| C. | Offstage lounge for performers | GREENROOM |
| D. | Actors' union, informally | EQUITY |
| E. | Theme in a music drama | LEITMOTIF |
| F. | Drink in the title of a Maugham novel | ALE |
| G. | Open tryout for roles (2 wds.) | CATTLECALL |
| H. | Co-winner of 1997's Best Screenplay Oscar | AFFLECK |
| I. | Frederic's nurse in "The Pirates of Penzance" | RUTH |
| J. | Choreographer whose works include "Push Comes to Shove" (2 wds.) | TWYLATHARP |
| K. | Greek goddesses of vengeance | EUMENIDES |
| L. | Theater of the absurd classic | RHINOCEROS |
| M. | Subject of an 1847 George Pitt melodrama and a 1979 hit Broadway musical (2 wds.) | SWEENEYTODD |
| N. | "The miserable have no other medicine / But only ___" ("Measure for Measure") | HOPE |
| O. | In ballet, a pose on one leg, with the other leg bent behind | ATTITUDE |
| P. | 1948 musical with the song "Wunderbar" (3 wds.) | KISSMEKATE |
| Q. | Like Puck | IMPISH |
| R. | New York theater formerly called the Alvin (2 wds.) | NEILSIMON |
| S. | 1990 film about "wiseguys" | GOODFELLAS |
| T. | Clownish imitation | APERY |
| U. | Author of operatic lyrics | LIBRETTIST |
| V. | Tragedian who wrote "Ion" and "Medea" | EURIPIDES |
| W. | 1972 rock 'n' roll musical | GREASE |