| JONSON | Ben ___, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 (6) |
| OKRI | Ben ___, author of the novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| OKRA | Ben ___, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| HECHT | Ben ___: Author of "Perfidy" (5) |
| BENJONSON | Author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 (3,6) |
| COMMON | Prostitute in Ben Jonson stage play The Alchemist (3,6) |
| MERCER | David ___, author of stage plays After Haggerty and Flint (6) |
| DOL | & 15A Prostitute in Ben Jonson stage play The Alchemist (3,6) |
| WEBSTER | John ___, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| GORKY | Maxim ___, author of stage plays The Lower Depths and Children of the Sun (5) |
| SHERIDAN | R B ___, author of stage plays The Rivals and The Critic (8) |
| OSBORNE | John ___, author of stage plays Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer (7) |
| IBSEN | Henrik ___, author of stage plays Hedda Gabler and The League of Youth (5) |
| ANTHEIL | George, pianist and composer of the operas Helen Retires and Volpone (7) |
| ARDEN | John ___, author of stage plays Live Like Pigs and The Workhouse Donkey (5) |
| GOLDSMITH | Oliver ___, author of stage plays She Stoops to Conquer and The Good-Natur'd Man (9) |
| GRAY | Simon ___, author of stage plays The Common Pursuit and Cell Mates (4) |
| ORTON | Joe ___, author of stage plays What the Butler Saw and Entertaining Mr Sloane (5) |
| HARE | David ___, author of stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour (4) |
| MAMET | David ___, author of stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow (5) |
