| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| BEGFORGIVENESS | Ask for mercy |
| PLEAD | Beg for mercy |
| IGIVE | Cry for mercy |
| HAVEAHEART | Cry for mercy |
| BEGFORGIVENESS | Plead for mercy |
| PLED | Appealed, as for mercy |
| IMPLORES | Begs, as for mercy |
| PLEA | Cry for mercy, e.g. |
| KNEEL | Prepare to beg for mercy |
| ROUT | Reason for a mercy rule |
| SEATS | Mercy and love, for two |
| ROUT | Occasion for the mercy rule |
| BOOKSHOP | Setting for Robert Frost's "A Masque of Mercy" |
| ANTONIO | For whose benefit "the quality of mercy is not strain'd" in Shakespeare |
