Possible Clues:

• Socratic meandering creates a problem
• Fiendish Socratic puzzle
• Verse where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase
• Actor is beginning to corpse -- awkward problem
• Crossing over street, upset about a word puzzle
• A bad-tempered moment, we hear, caused by word puzzle
• First-letter puzzle
• Girl short in opening of play: introduction of Cordelia a puzzle
• Puzzle using first letters
• Kind of quote puzzle