| OEDIPUSREX | One of the three Theban plays by Sophocles |
| ELECTRA | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology; subject of plays by Sophocles and Euripides (7) |
| ANTIGONE | Subject of plays by Sophocles, Euripides and Cocteau |
| EPIGONI | Play by Sophocles about the sons of the Seven against Thebes in Greek legend (7) |
| GREEKTRAGEDY | Play by Sophocles, for example (5,7) |
| AJAX | A play by Sophocles - or a football club in Amsterdam (4) |
| ANTI | Play by Sophocles is gone after this critic... |
| SOPHOCLES | Author of the Theban plays |
| HENRYIV | Son of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster born in Bolingbroke Castle in 1367 who became the subject of two plays by William Shakespeare (5,2) |
| WIVES | The Merry - of Windsor; one of the plays by Shakespeare with Sir John Falstaff (5) |
| BANTHEBOMB | Theban plays fail to make peaceful appeal (3,3,4) |
| SEPARATETABLES | A pair of one-act plays by Terence Rattigan, both set in the same Bournemouth hotel |
| LOOT | Second of the three full-length plays by English playwright Joe Orton, premiered in 1965 (4) |
| NAHUMTATE | Besides rewriting plays by the famous playwrights of his day. who also wrote the libretto to Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689) |
| OLDAGEAND | Start of a quote by Sophocles |
| ORESTEIA | The ?, trilogy of plays by Aeschylus (8) |
| NORMAN | "The --- Conquests", trilogy of plays by Alan Ayckbourn (6) |
| EARL | 17th ___ of Oxford, author of Shakespeare's plays, by some accounts |
| SEPARATE | --- Tables, collective name of two one-act plays by Terence Rattigan (8) |
| ORESTES | Hero of a trilogy of plays by Euripides (7) |
