| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Musical craftsman, poet, dramatist and novelist |
| DRINKWATER | John --, 1882-1937, poet, dramatist and critic (10) |
| SHAKESPEARE | William _, England's most famous poet, dramatist and actor (11) |
| GOETHE | German poet, dramatist and scientist (1749-1832) (6) |
| LORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and artist who wrote the play Blood Wedding in 1933, Federico Garcia ... |
| JOHN | Poet, dramatist and critic born at Aldwinkle Rectory, Northamptonshire (4,6) |
| DRYDEN | Poet, dramatist and critic born at Aldwinkle Rectory, Northamptonshire (4,6) |
| FEDERICOGARCIALORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director killed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War |
| YEATS | Poet, dramatist and politician, 1865-1939, who was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (5) |
| GAUTIER | Theophile, French poet, dramatist and literary critic born in 1811 (7) |
| MOLNAR | Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel |
| STRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist noted for The Red Room and A Dream Play (10) |
| AUGUSTSTRINDBERG | Swedish dramatist and novelist whose plays include Miss Julie and The Ghost Sonata (6,10) |
| LYLY | Dramatist and novelist whose romances Euphues: The Anatomy |
| GENET | French dramatist and novelist (1910-86) |
| BECKETT | Samuel , Irish dramatist and novelist (7) |
| APHRABEHN | 17th-century English dramatist and novelist whose works include the novel Oroonoko (5,4) |
| DUMAS | Author of The Count of Monte Cristo who was "pere" of dramatist and novelist Alexandre "fils" (5) |
| HENRYFIELDING | English dramatist and novelist, 1707-1754, author of Tom Jones (5,8) |
| SCHILLER | Friedrich - - -, German poet, dramatist, historian and philosopher (8) |
