| GOETHE | German poet and scholar who wrote the play Faust (6) |
| PETRARCH | 14th Century Italian lyric poet and scholar who gave his name to a sonnet form (8) |
| BEDE | Saint known as the Venerable ---, monk and scholar who wrote Ecclesiastical History Of The English People (4) |
| ASCHAM | Humanist scholar who wrote The Scholemaster and the treatise on archery Toxophilus (6) |
| HEBBEL | German poet and dramatist who won the Schiller Prize for the 1862 trilogy Die Nibelungen (6) |
| COWARD | Noel -; dramatist who wrote the play Hay Fever and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen (6) |
| FUGARD | South African dramatist who wrote the plays Blood Knot and The Road to Mecca and the novel Tsotsi (6 |
| RACINE | Jean Baptiste, 17c French poet who wrote the play Phedre (6) |
| AGATHA | _ Christie, detective novelist who wrote the play The Mouse Trap (6) |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| GBSHAW | Who wrote the play Man and Superman? |
| SARDOU | Victorien, French dramatist who wrote the play La Tosca (6) |
| ONEILL | Eugene, U.S. dramatist who wrote the play Long Day's Journey into Night (6) |
| HELLER | Joseph who wrote the play "We Bombed in New Haven" |
| JOWETT | Benjamin -; scholar who translated works of Plato, Aristotle and Thucydides and became a master of Balliol College, Oxford (6) |
| ERASMUS | Dutch scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly |
| STBEDE | Monastic scholar who popularized the "anno Domini" system |
| SCHILLER | Johann von --, German poet and dramatist who wrote the play Maria Stuart (8) |
| ISIDORE | Saint and scholar who compiled the 20-book encyclopaedia Etymologiae, which includes subjects ranging from agriculture and angels to arithmetic and astronomy (7) |
| HOUSMAN | A. E. -; poet and classical scholar who wrote A Shropshire Lad (7) |
