| MENANDER | Greek poet and comic dramatist who wrote the play Dyskolos (8) |
| AMIS | Poet and comic novelist Kingsley who was married to Elizabeth Jane Howard for some 18 years (4) |
| SCHILLER | Johann von --, German poet and dramatist who wrote the play Maria Stuart (8) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ---, 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (8) |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| NOEL | First name of the dramatist who wrote the play Hay Fever and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen (4) |
| COWARD | Noel -; dramatist who wrote the play Hay Fever and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen (6) |
| IVANTURGENEV | 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (4,8) |
| ELIOT | What was the surname of the poet who wrote the play Murder in the Cathedral? (5) |
| FUGARD | South African dramatist who wrote the plays Blood Knot and The Road to Mecca and the novel Tsotsi (6 |
| LORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and artist who wrote the play Blood Wedding in 1933, Federico Garcia ... |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish dramatist who wrote the play Juno And The Paycock (4,6) |
| BENNETT | Alan, British dramatist and screenwriter born in Leeds who wrote the play The History Boys (7) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer and aesthete who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| GOETHE | German poet and scholar who wrote the play Faust (6) |
| ALBEE | Edward who wrote the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia" |
| EUGENEONEILL | American dramatist who wrote the play The Iceman Cometh (6,6) |
| ODETS | Clifford -; dramatist who wrote the plays Waiting for Lefty, Golden Boy and Rocket to the Moon (5) |
| UNU | Prime minister who wrote the play "The People Win Through" |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
