| BEHAN | Brendan, Irish author of the play The Quare Fellow (5) |
| BRENDAN | -- Behan, Irish author of 'The Quare Fellow' (7) |
| BOYNE | Name the Irish author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas? (5) |
| SYNGE | Irish writer of the 1907 drama The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| ORTON | Joe --, author of the play 'The Ruffian On the Stair' (5) |
| FRAYN | Michael -; author of the plays The Two of Us and Noises Off and novels including The Tin Men, Sweet Dreams, Headlong and Spies (5) |
| ALBEE | Edward, author of the play The Zoo Story (5) |
| SIMON | Neil, author of the play The Sunshine Boys (5) |
| ATHOL | Mr. Fugard, author of the play The Road to Mecca (5) |
| YEATS | W.B., author of the play The Countess Cathleen (5) |
| ANTON | Mr. Chekhov, author of the play The Seagull (5) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai, author of the play The Government Inspector (5) |
| GENET | Jean, author of the plays The Maids and The Balcony (5) |
| PIKETHEATRE | Dublin playhouse where the premiere of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow was given (4,7) |
| GORKY | Russian writer of the play The Lower Depths (5) |
| BRENDANBEHAN | Famous navigator and outlaw shelter the man returning as the quare fellow was his (7,5) |
| PLAYINGFIELDS | Pitches to the quare fellow popular on golf greens (7,6) |
| OBRIEN | Irish author of The Country Girls, Wild Decembers and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| RODDYDOYLE | Irish writer of the 1991 novel The Van (5,5) |
| MAXIMGORKY | Author of the plays The Lower Depths and Children Of The Sun (5,5) |
