| RUSSELL | Willy, English dramatist noted for his plays Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine (7) |
| WILLY | Author of 1980 stage play Educating Rita (5,7) |
| WYCHERLEY | English dramatist noted for his Restoration comedy The Country Wife (9) |
| THOMASKYD | 16th-century English dramatist noted for his revenge play The Spanish Tragedy |
| PLUTARCH | Greek biographer and philosopher, noted for his Parallel Lives, from which Shakespeare drew information for his plays |
| ERNIEWISE | Comedy performer famed for his plays “what I wrote” |
| KUSHNER | Tony, U.S. author and dramatist noted for his play Angels In America (7) |
| ANOUILH | Jean -; French dramatist noted for interpretations of Greek myths in his plays including Eurydice and Antigone (7) |
| CONGREVE | William, English dramatist noted for his play The Way Of The World (8) |
| WALTERS | Julie ___, actress whose films include Educating Rita and Calendar Girls |
| PAULINE | British actress who won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for playing Shirley Valentine (7,7) |
| COLLINS | British actress who won an Olivier Award and a Tony Award for playing Shirley Valentine (7,7) |
| WILLIAM | English Restoration dramatist best known for his play The Way of the World (7,8) |
| MOLIERE | French dramatist noted for The Miser (7) |
| OCASEY | Sean, Irish dramatist noted for his play Juno And The Paycock (6) |
| TAVERNA | Where Shirley Valentine worked for the Greek state in a National Trust building (7) |
| SHERRIFF | R. C. -; dramatist noted for his play Journey's End who also wrote the screenplays to The Invisible Man and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (8) |
| SYNGE | J. M., Irish dramatist noted for his play The Playboy Of The Western World (5) |
| ORTON | Joe ___, dramatist noted for his play Entertaining Mr Sloane |
| ROSTAND | French poet, 1868-1918, best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac (7) |
