| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer and wit who wrote the play The Importance Of Being Earnest (5,5) |
| MAXBOHM | EDWARDIAN WIT WHO WROTE "THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE" |
| OSCAR | Forename of a dramatist, novelist, poet and wit who also wrote short stories including The Fisherman and His Soul, The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Star-Child (5) |
| WILLROGERS | Oklahoma wit who wrote A fool and his money are soon elected: 2 wds. |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish dramatist who wrote the play Juno And The Paycock (4,6) |
| LADYBRACKNELL | Character who delivers the line "A handbag?" in Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest |
| EARNEST | What completes the title of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being ___? (7) |
| WILDE | Oscar -, Irish writer and wit (5) |
| MISSPRISM | Governess in the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest (4,5) |
| ALBEE | Edward who wrote the play "The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia" |
| BENNETT | Alan, British dramatist and screenwriter born in Leeds who wrote the play The History Boys (7) |
| BRACKNELL | Lady -; Gwendolen's mother in Oscar Wilde's comic play The Importance of Being Earnest (9) |
| AUGUSTA | Lady -- Bracknell, character in Oscar Wilde's play 'The Importance of Being Earnest' (7) |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| UNU | Prime minister who wrote the play "The People Win Through" |
| ARNOLDRIDLEY | Actor in Dad's Army who wrote the play The Ghost Train |
| EUGENEONEILL | American dramatist who wrote the play The Iceman Cometh (6,6) |
| AGATHA | _ Christie, detective novelist who wrote the play The Mouse Trap (6) |
| SWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who wrote about Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the Land of the Houyhnhnms in his satire Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| NOEL | First name of the dramatist who wrote the play Hay Fever and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen (4) |
