| TEAHOUSE | "The ___ of the August Moon": Pulitzer-winning 1953 play |
| CRUCIBLE | The ____, Tony Award-winning 1953 play about the Salem witch trials (8) |
| MARLON | Brando of "The Teahouse of the August Moon" |
| SALEM | Arthur Millers 1953 play, The Crucible, took a swipe at McCarthyism by way of the witch trials in th |
| GODOT | Absent character featuring in the title of 1953 play by Samuel Beckett (5) |
| COLLEEN | Hoover whose book "It Ends With Us" sold more than eight hundred thousand copies in the month after the August, 2024, release of its film adaptation |
| TREES | Kilmer poem that appeared in the August 1913 issue of "Poetry" |
| THREE | No. of days the August Evesham Angling Festival lasts (5) |
| GHOSTSONATA | The -, August Strindberg stage play first produced in 1908 (5,6) |
| ROMANHOLIDAY | Oscar-winning 1953 romantic comedy (5,7) |
| SHANE | Title gunslinger in an Oscar-winning 1953 Western classic |
| LARK | "The ...", 1953 play by Jean Anouilh (4) |
| THECRUCIBLE | A 1953 play by Arthur Miller about the Salem witch trials (3,8) |
| MIA | Rapper with the August, 2007 album "Kala" |
| IRRIGATION | One way to combat the August dry period |
| LEOS | Kids born on the August long weekend |
| TEAS | August Moon inventory |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish author and Nobel laureate (1969) noted for the 1953 play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) (7) |
| THEORCHARDWALLS | 1953 play by R F Delderfield adapted into the 1956 film Now and Forever, directed by Mario Zampi |
| TEAANDSYMPATHY | 1953 play, or consolation for a meatless meal? |
