| BEHAN | Irish writer whose works include the play The Quare Fellow (5) |
| ONEILL | Eugene - - -, US dramatist whose works include the play The Iceman Cometh (6) |
| JOYCE | James ---, Irish author whose works include the novel Finnegans Wake (5) |
| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| DOYLE | Roddy - - -, Irish author whose novels include The Commitments (5) |
| LYNCH | Irish author whose Prophet Song won the 2023 Booker Prize. (5) |
| BENNETT | Alan ___, English writer whose works include the plays The Madness Of George III and The History Boys (7) |
| ALANBENNETT | English writer whose works include the plays The Madness Of George III and The History Boys (4,7) |
| BRENDANBEHAN | Famous navigator and outlaw shelter the man returning as the quare fellow was his (7,5) |
| PIKETHEATRE | Dublin playhouse where the premiere of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow was given (4,7) |
| PLAYINGFIELDS | Pitches to the quare fellow popular on golf greens (7,6) |
| JAMESJOYCE | Irish author whose works include 'Ulysses' (5,5) |
| HARE | Sir David ---, English dramatist, whose works include the play Racing Demon and the screenplay for The Hours (4) |
| DYLANTHOMAS | 20th Century Welsh poet whose best-known works include the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood (5,6) |
| THOMASDEKKER | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish writer whose novels include The Country Girls (4) |
| OBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls, August Is a Wicked Month and The Light of Evening (1'5) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| EDNAOBRIEN | Irish author whose novels include The Country Girls |
| CECELIAAHERN | Irish author whose novels include PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End (7,5) |
