| BYRNE | John -, author of 1978 stage play The Slab Boys (5) |
| SYNGE | J M ___, author of the stage play The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| WHITE | The ?, Mikhail Bulgakov novel on which stage play The Days of the Turbins was based (5,5) |
| GUARD | The -, Mikhail Bulgakov novel on which stage play The Days of the Turbins was based (5,5) |
| GORKY | Maxim ?, author of stage plays The Lower Depths and Children of the Sun (5) |
| EVITA | 1978 stage musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (5) |
| TZARA | Tristan ?, Romania-born French Dadaist author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart (5) |
| GEOET | Jean-author of stage plays The Balcony and The Maids (5) |
| GENET | Jean ?, author of stage plays The Balcony and The Maids |
| HANDS | Body parts pressed into the slabs at Grauman's Chinese Theatre |
| AKINS | Zoe ?, Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner for 1935 stage play The Old Maid (5) |
| TALENT | 1978 stage play by Victoria Wood (6) |
| BETRAYAL | 1978 stage play by Harold Pinter (8) |
| PLENTY | 1978 stage play by David Hare |
| STILLLIFE | Third play in John Byrne's Slab Boys trilogy (5,4) |
| PLINTH | The slab at the base of a column (6) |
| WELDON | Fay, author of 1978 novel Praxis (6) |
| OCASEY | Sean, author of the stage play The Plough and the Stars (6) |
| CONGREVE | William ___, author of 1700 stage play The Way of the World (8) |
| WEBSTER | John ___, author of stage plays The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
