| BENJONSON | Playwright who wrote Volpone (3,6) |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas ____, Jacobean playwright who wrote Women Beware Women |
| NEILSIMON | Playwright who wrote The Odd Couple (4,5) |
| TENNESSEE | _ Williams, playwright who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (9) |
| PRIESTLEY | J.B. _, English novelist and playwright who wrote An Inspector Calls (1945) |
| BRECHTIAN | Suggestive of the style of the playwright who wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (9) |
| ROSENTHAL | Jack ********* , English playwright who wrote the television play and subsequent musical 'Bar Mitzvah Boy' (9) |
| JEANGENET | 20th-Century French novelist and playwright who wrote Notre-DameDes-Fleurs (4,5) |
| APHRABEHN | Restoration playwright who wrote 1677's The Rover (5,4) |
| BEN | "Volpone" playwright Jonson |
| JONSON | Ben ?, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 (6) |
| SLY | Like Volpone |
| USENO | "I pray you, ___ violence": "Volpone" |
| NEATH | Under Volpone, a theatrical piece (5) |
| EEN | "'Tis a vain labour ___ to fight 'gainst heaven": "Volpone" |
| ANTHEIL | George, pianist and composer of the operas Helen Retires and Volpone (7) |
| SIRPOLITICWOULDBE | Character in Ben Jonson's play Volpone (3,7,5-2) |
| SHAW | Playwright who wrote "Those who cannot change |
| SEAN | Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" |
| GENET | French playwright who wrote "The Balcony" |
