| HENRYFIELDING | 18th Century English novelist and dramatist whose works included Tom Jones (5,8) |
| ALBERT | _ Finney, actor whose films included Tom Jones and Erin Brockovich (6) |
| AMELIA | Edwards, 19th-century English novelist and Egyptologist who co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund (6) |
| ALEXANDRE | --- Dumas, French novelist and dramatist whose works included The Three Musketeers (9) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul ___, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist whose works include Being and Nothingness and Nausea |
| VIRGINIAWOOLF | English novelist and essayist whose works include To The Lighthouse (8,5) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre ---, French novelist and dramatist whose works include The Three Musketeers (5) |
| EMLYNWILLIAMS | Welsh actor and dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| ELIOT | T S _, Us-born British poet and dramatist whose works included The Waste Land (1922) |
| GRAHAMGREENE | English novelist and dramatist who wrote Brighton Rock (6,6) |
| GREENE | Graham - - -, English novelist and dramatist who wrote Brighton Rock (6) |
| GALSWORTHY | Novelist and dramatist whose The Forsyte Saga earned him the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature (10) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian novelist and dramatist whose plays include A Month in the Country (8) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French novelist and dramatist whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| DRYDEN | John -; poet and dramatist whose works include All for Love and Absalom and Achitophel (6) |
| FIELDING | Henry _, English novelist and dramatist, cofounder of the Bow Street Runners, London's first police force (8) |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the novelist and dramatist whose 1839 play Richelieu contains the line "the pen is mightier than the sword" (6) |
| THOMASDEKKER | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| BENNETT | Alan -; actor and dramatist whose works include the series of monologues Talking Heads and the play The History Boys (7) |
| SOPHOCLES | Ancient Greek dramatist whose works included Antigone and Oedipus Rex (9) |