| STRINDBERG | August ___, Swedish playwright whose works include The Ghost Sonata (10) |
| STRIMDBERG | Swedish playwright who also wrote the novel The Red Room (10) |
| DAVIDMAMET | American playwright whose works include Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow |
| PETERWEISS | German playwright whose works include Marat/Sade (5,5) |
| AUGUSTSTRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist whose plays include Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata (6,10) |
| RATTIGAN | Surname of the playwright whose works include The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version |
| TSELIOT | Poet and playwright whose works include The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Murder in the Cathedral and The Waste Land (1,1,5) |
| PINERO | Surname of the knighted playwright whose works include The Second Mrs Tanqueray and Trelawny Of The Wells (6) |
| RUDKIN | David -, playwright whose works include The Triumph of Death and The Sons of Light (6) |
| SYNGE | John Millington ---, Irish playwright whose works include The Playboy Of The Western World (5) |
| SWEDENBORG | Emanuel ___, Swedish scientist, mystic and theologian who died in 1772 (10) |
| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| TOMSTOPPARD | British playwright whose works include The Real Inspector Hound (1966) |
| CHEKHOV | Russian playwright whose works include The Cherry Orchard (7) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt ___, playwright whose works include The Threepenny Opera (6) |
| ATHOL | ___ Fugard, South African playwright whose works include The Island (5) |
| BRENTON | Howard, playwright whose works include The Genius of 1983 (7) |
| PAMGEMS | Playwright whose works include the musical biography Piaf (3,4) |
| HAROLDPINTER | English playwright whose works include The Birthday Party (6,6) |
| BURNETT | Frances Hodgson ---, British-American author and playwright whose works include The Secret Garden (7) |
