| TREVORNUNN | Theatre director; ex-artistic director of the Royal National Theatre (6,4) |
| HILLARY | William, founder of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1824 (7) |
| PERTH | Where was the Royal National Mod held in 2022? (5) |
| VONKARAJAN | Herbert, conductor who was the artistic director of the Vienna State Opera from 1957-64 (3,7) |
| TAMARAROJO | Spanish ballet dancer appointed Artistic Director of English National Ballet in 2012 (6,4) |
| TERRYHANDS | English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years |
| LITTLEWOOD | Joan ___, British theatre director who founded the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (10) |
| PETERBROOK | Theatre director who wrote the 1968 book The Empty Space (5,5) |
| BOYD | Novelist who wrote The Lemon Farm, The Picnic, The Cardboard Crown and When Blackbirds Sing ; or, the artistic director of the RSC from 2003-12 (4) |
| BOYLE | Danny ---, filmmaker who was the artistic director of the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games (5) |
| OLIVIER | English actor, first artistic director of the National Theatre (7) |
| KARENKAIN | Artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada (5,4) |
| GROVE | First director of the Royal College of Music who founded the Dictionary of Music and Musicians; or, a woodland/orchard of lemon, orange or olive trees (5) |
| COUNTYHALL | Judge with unknown theatre director in administrative centre (6,4) |
| EDWARDBOND | Saved playwright and theatre director (6,4) |
| IMPRESARIO | Almost make mark on a city theatre director |
| NGAIOMARSH | New Zealand crime writer and theatre director who created detective Roderick Alleyn (5,5) |
| STAGECRAFT | Theatre director's talent with comedy pieces over time |
| RYLANCE | Mark ?, Artistic Director of the Globe Theatre in London from 1995-2005 (7) |
| TREVOR | ___ Nunn, the second artistic director of the RSC (6) |
