| IRIDESCENCE | I mount part of play including constant colourful display (11) |
| DIORAMA | Play including current, old, contrived scene |
| STEADFASTNESS | Ted's fan displays assets including constant application (13) |
| SCALE | Mount part of creature's skin? (5) |
| NATIVES | Mount part of Webber's Evita normally for locals (7) |
| UNEMOTIONAL | Alone I mount unsteadily, showing no signs of feeling (11) |
| COCONUTMILK | I mount clock in order to see Asian ingredient (7,4) |
| VALLEINCLAN | Who was a member of the Spanish Generation of '98 and wrote plays, including Bohemian Lights (1920) |
| DARIOFO | Italian author of plays including Accidental Death of an Anarchist 1970 (5,2) |
| MOLIERE | Sobriquet of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, author of plays including Tartuffe, Dom Juan and The Misanthrope (7) |
| UGOBETTI | Italian author of plays including Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, 1949) and La fuggitiva (The Fugitive, 1953) (3,5) |
| JOEORTON | English author of plays including Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) and Loot (1965) (3,5) |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley ___, Anglo-Irish author of plays including The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777) (8) |
| IRISH | I mount docked horse for National |
| MUNITION | Shell, maybe, I mount in ground (8) |
| TINAMOU | I mount a stuffed bird |
| ANOUILH | Jean -; French dramatist noted for interpretations of Greek myths in his plays including Eurydice and Antigone (7) |
| BAGNOLD | Author best known for her novel National Velvet who also wrote A Diary Without Dates and plays including The Chalk Garden and A Matter of Gravity (7) |
| STAGGERS | People putting on plays including grand shocks |
