| SYNGE | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| JMSYNGE | Playwright who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| YEATS | Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet who co-founded the Abbey Theatre (5) |
| GBSHAW | Playwright who co-founded the London School of Economics, briefly |
| LARRYKRAMER | Playwright who co-founded ACT UP |
| OCASEY | Sean ---, Dublin dramatist whose works included Juno And The Paycock, which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 1924 (6) |
| GREGORY | Isabella Augusta, Lady ___, co-founder with Yeats of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (7) |
| SHOOTAT | Go Away opens at The Abbey Theatre - it could be an attempt at a big hit (5,2) |
| THEPLAYBOYOFTHEWESTERNWORLD | Three-act play by John Millington Synge that provoked riots when it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 1907 |
| DEIRDRE | W B Yeats play performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin in 1906 (7) |
| JOSEPHOFARIMATHEA | The rich Jew who, according to legend, brought the Holy Grail to Britain and founded the abbey at Glastonbury (6,2,9) |
| COLUMBA | Early Irish missionary who founded the abbey on Iona |
| ROSENTHAL | Jack ********* , English playwright who co-wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film 'Yentl' (9) |
| NOEL | ____ Coward, playwright who co-directed the 1942 war film In Which We Serve (4) |
| BLAKE | Illustrator of many of the children's books by Roald Dahl who was awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1980; or, the pop artist who co-founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists (5) |
| STEELE | A member of the Kit-Cat Club who co-founded The Spectator and wrote The Tatler under the pen name Isaac Bickerstaff (6) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
| KLIMT | Austrian artist who co-founded the Vienna Secession, his paintings include Rosebushes under the Trees, The Kiss and Farm Garden with Sunflowers (5) |
| BEECHAM | Conductor who co-founded the London Philharmonic Orchestra with Malcolm Sargent and founded the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (7) |
| REYNOLDS | First president of the Royal Academy of Arts who co-founded The Club and painted actress Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse (8) |
