| ODETS | Group Theatre co-founder and author of Waiting for Lefty whose play The Country Girl was adapted into a film with Grace Kelly (5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish novelist and author of Waiting for Godot (7) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish author whose debut novel The Country Girls was published in 1960 (4) |
| ODOUL | Baseball player Lefty whose last name fills in the blanks of "gr_un_ rule d_ _b_e" |
| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish writer whose memoir Country Girl was published in 2012 (4,6) |
| YEATS | Poet and dramatist whose play The Countess Cathleen was dedicated to his muse Maud Gonne, who was a co-founder of Sinn Fein (5) |
| IONESCO | Whose play The Bald Soprano helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd? |
| MOLNAR | Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish author of Waiting for Godot (6,7) |
| CLIFFORD | Playwright famous for Waiting for Lefty, The Big Knife, The Country Girl, etc. (8,5) |
| KELLY | Princess of Monaco and winner of the Best Actress Oscar for her work in The Country Girl (last name only) (5) |
| REYNOLDS | Co-founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts who was the second artist to have been honoured with a knighthood after Sir James Thornhill (8) |
| BROOKSANDDUNN | Duo whose "Play Something Country" hit #1 on the Billboard Country Songs Chart in 2005: 3 wds. |
| ALBEE | Edward -; dramatist whose play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was adapted into a film with Elizabeth Taylor (5) |
| WILDE | Irish dramatist whose play Lady Windermere's Fan formed the basis of the film set in Amalfi A Good Woman (5) |
| LAHR | Co-star of the American premiere of "Waiting for Godot" |
| BELL | Bloomsbury Group co-founder and painter of Christmas Decorations whose daughter Angelica was born at her home Charleston on Christmas Day in 1918 (4) |
| SBS | Initials-sharers of the Irish playwright of Waiting for Godot |
| SAMUEL | What is the first name of Waiting for Godot author Beckett? (6) |
| KINKS | Band who had a hit with "Tired of Waiting for You" in 1965: The --- (5) |
