| AESCHYLUS | Greek dramatist best known for trilogy the Oresteia |
| THOMASKYD | English dramatist best known for the late Elizabethan revenge play The Spanish Tragedy (6,3) |
| SOPHOCLES | dramatist best known for plays about Thebes |
| EUMENIDES | The -, final part of The Oresteia by Aeschylus named after the Erinyes in Greek mythology (9) |
| TWOTOWERS | "The ... ... ", second part of the JRR Tolkien trilogy The Lord of the Rings (3,6) |
| WILLIAM | English Restoration dramatist best known for his play The Way of the World (7,8) |
| CONGREVE | English Restoration dramatist best known for his play The Way of the World (7,8) |
| EURIPIDES | Ancient Greek dramatist who wrote the tragedy Medea (9) |
| HUGO | Victor ___, French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| ALBEE | US dramatist best known for the 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| EDWARD | US dramatist best known for the 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| DARIOFO | Italian actor and dramatist best known for his 1970 play The Accidental Death of an Anarchist |
| VICTORHUGO | French poet, novelist, and dramatist best known for the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris |
| EDWARDALBEE | US dramatist best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| GOETHE | German dramatist best-known for Faust (6) |
| MANTICORE | Second novel (published in 1972) in Canadian author Robertson Davies' series The Deptford Trilogy, The ___ |
| ESOTERICA | Oresteia somehow packs in 100 mysterious items |
| BENTRAVERS | British dramatist, best known for such farces as Rookery Nook, Thark and Plunder (3,7) |
| ETA | Greek goddess returns as character in The Oresteia? |
| ELECTRA | 1931 play cycle by Eugene O'Neill that is a retelling of the Oresteia by Aeschylus (6,7,7) |
