| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| BATH | The Wife of ... (Chaucer character) |
| BATH | Wife of .. (Chaucer character) |
| BATH | The Wife of ... (Chaucer story teller) |
| REEVE | Oswald the ... (Chaucer character) |
| REEVE | Oswald the ..... (Chaucer character) |
| EDNABEST | Portrayer of the wife of Leslie Howard's character in "Intermezzo" |
| bluebeard | A character in a tale by Charles Perrault, who killed several wives in turn for disobeying his order to avoid a locked room, which contained the bodies of his previous wives. Local tradition in Brittany identifies him with Gilles de Rais (c.1400รป40), a perpetrator of atrocities, although he had only one wife (who left him) |
