| ADMINISTRATOR | Runner or dramatist in play |
| WRITER | Novelist or dramatist |
| SHOE | One of a pair of matching items either handcrafted in the trade of cobblery/cordwainery or mass- produced; or, something reminiscent of this in shape or use, such as a hoof plate, sled runner or wheel |
| LANE | A streak of dust and gas in a spiral galaxy; a narrow country road between hedges; a passage through a crowd; or, a division of a track or pool for one runner or swimmer (4) |
| EACH | --- way, a bet made on the same runner or contestant to win or come second or third in a race (4) |
| SOPHOCLES | Dramatist in posh close in resort (9) |
| SCRIPTWRITERS | Playwrights or dramatists, eg |
| OCASEY | Dramatist in old suit appearing before end of play (6) |
| ORIENTEER | Cross-country runner or one heading in to register (9) |
| SCUD | Cloud, rain, spray etc driven fast by the wind; a swift run/runner; or, in the Scots language, a state of nudity (4) |
| BARRIE | Scottish dramatist in Welsh port, reportedly (6) |
| PLAYWRIGHT | Dramatist in predicament is unusually wary (10) |
| PLAUTUS | Dramatist in Latin American city entering place to west |
| SURE | Certain Irish dramatist in audience (4) |
| TERENCE | Dramatist in ecstasy after recent plays (7) |
| ATODDS | Fighting to have leading dramatist in promos (2,4) |
| COWARD | Dramatist in conflict about method of payment |
| IBSEN | Dramatist in Swinburne's biography on the rise |
| RACINE | Dramatist in France briefly flying east (6) |
| INTER | Start denied dramatist in Bury (5) |
