| MENANDER | Comic dramatist of ancient Greece whose sole complete extant work is Dyskolos (8) |
| ARISTOPHANES | Greek playwright, known as the Father of Comedy, whose complete extant works include Lysistrata (411 BC) and The Frogs (405 BC) (12) |
| ARCADIA | Region of ancient Greece whose chief city was Megalopolis (7) |
| HYPASPIST | Elite, lightly-armed soldier of ancient Greece whose title means 'shield-bearer' (9) |
| MOLIERE | Leading French comic dramatist of the 17th century |
| TERENCE | A dramatist of ancient Rome born in Greece (7) |
| EURIPIDES | Last of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Athens, following Aeschylus and Sophocles (9) |
| THESSALY | Region of Greece whose capital is Larissa (8) |
| ACINONYX | Animal genus in the cat family (Felidae) whose sole extant member is the cheetah (8) |
| BARBADOS | Island whose sole Olympic medal to date won by sprinter Obadele Thompson at Sydney 2000 (8) |
| KIRKLAND | Chris ___, goalkeeper whose sole England cap in 2006 earned his father and friends A£10,000 each for a bet made eleven years earlier |
| CORINNA | ___ of Tanagra, one of the few female poets from Ancient Greece whose works survive (7) |
| CORFU | Second largest of the Ionian Islands, a naval power in ancient Greece, whose capital is enclosed by two castles (5) |
| DODECANESE | Group of islands in the Aegean Sea, forming a department of Greece whose capital is Rhodes (10) |
| LEIPOA | Australian bird genus of the family Megapodiidae whose sole extant member is the malleefowl (6) |
| ATTICA | Department of Greece whose capital is Athens (6) |
| PINDUS | Mountain range in Greece whose highest peak is Mount Smolikas (6) |
| DARLINGTONIA | Genus of plants whose sole member is the California pitcher plant |
| ANTLIA | Small faint constellation of the southern hemisphere (the Air Pump) whose sole named star is Macondo (6) |
| SIRGEORGEETHEREGE | English comic dramatist whose works include "The Man of Mode" |
