From The Enigma
NPL Magazine - June, 2012
YOMAMA

[The two answers to this flat are homophones.]

The actress, it seemed, was a genuine
shrew.
She stood in her room at the Globe
and she threw
A platter of bonbons right onto the
floor.
The sound of the crash brought her
rep to the door.
"Now lovey," he soothed as he tried to
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,
"I know you're angry, but you see, it's
so late,
The curtain is up and it's time to
_ _ _ _   _ _ _ _ ."

Answers:

PLACATE
PLAY KATE

(as in Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew)