| ODETS | Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty |
| ALBEE | Edward ___, American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| CLIFFORD | Playwright famous for Waiting for Lefty, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, etc. (8,5) |
| TIPSYCAKE | A trifle of the rewards for waiting for Yes cover (5,4) |
| JOHNOSBORNE | English playwright best known for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger (4,7) |
| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| ENID | --- Bagnold, British author and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet (4) |
| WILLIAMGOLDING | British novelist, poet, playwright best known for his novel Lord of the Flies |
| SYNGE | John Millington ___, Irish playwright best known for The Playboy of the Western World |
| FRAYN | Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off |
| SOPHOCLES | One of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights, best known for Oedipus Rex (9) |
| MILLER | Arthur _; American playwright who married Marilyn Monroe (6) |
| ONEACT | Like Clifford Odets's "Waiting for Lefty" |
| AMBUSHER | Warning light outside American hospital for waiting enemy (8) |
| OVAL | "Waiting For Lefty" playwright |
| PITTSBURGH | Reward for waiting up for Eliot coming from old Scottish borough to industrial city in America (10) |
| SIFTON | Author of our quotation Sir Clifford ______ |
| TIP | Thank you for waiting to get some advice (3) |
| ENDING | No parking for waiting in terminal (6) |
| SERVICECHARGE | Is this the price for waiting? (7,6) |
