| LAURAKEENE | Actress and manager whose company's performance of play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5,5) |
| SHOJI | Japanese screen with translucent white paper or "washi" that softly diffuses light throughout a room (5) |
| TAPE | Washi ___ (Japanese stationery item) |
| PAPER | Sheet material, known to origamists as kami or washi (5) |
| JOHNWILKESBOOTH | Supporter of slavery who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre, Washington D.C., in 1865 (4,6,5) |
| ABE | Ford's Theatre victim, briefly |
| KEENE | Laura ___, actress-manager whose company's performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre, Washington, D C was attended by Abraham Lincoln on the night of his assassination (5) |
| DUNDREARY | Lord ____, a caricature of an English nobleman in the play Our American Cousin, gave his name to long sideburns |
| LORDDUNDREARY | Character in 'Our American Cousin', a play by Tom Taylor (4,9) |
| HILLARDELKINS | American talent manager whose productions include the musical Oh! Calcutta! on Broadway and the film Alice's Restaurant |
| THEATRE | A building designed for performance of plays, concerts and operas (7) |
| CAUSATION | Production of an effect for a cousin at play (9) |
| TREE | Actor-manager whose daughter Iris was an artists' muse; or, a type of woody plant whose embryonic leaves are called cotyledons (4) |
| MATINEE | Afternoon performance (of play etc) (7) |
| PREMIERE | First public performance of play, film (8) |
| REVIVAL | Renewed performance of play (7) |
| BEECH | Chris ___, Rochdale assistant manager whose clubs as a player included Huddersfield and Hartlepool (5) |
| ONEILL | Martin ___, Northern Irish football manager whose teams have included Leicester City, Celtic and Aston Villa |
| MARKHUGHES | Former Wales international football manager whose clubs as a player included Manchester United, Chelsea, Barcelona and Bayern Munich |
| DAVIDOLEARY | Former Leeds United and Aston Villa manager whose 722 appearances for Arsenal are a club record |
