| ANIDEAL | 1895 play by Oscar Wilde (2,5) |
| ANIDEALHUSBAND | 1895 play by Oscar Wilde |
| HUSBAND | 1895 play by Oscar Wilde (2,5,7) |
| EARNEST | 'The Importance of Being ---', 1895 play by Oscar Wilde (7) |
| IDEAL | An --- Husband, 1895 play by Oscar Wilde (5) |
| IDEALHUSBAND | An --- ---, 1895 play by Oscar Wilde (5,7) |
| READING | 'The Ballad of -- Gaol', poem by Oscar Wilde (7) |
| MELMOTH | Sebastian, pseudonym adopted by Oscar Wilde in Paris after his release from prison in 1897 (7) |
| IMPORTANCEOF | The -, 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde (10,2) |
| BEINGEARNEST | The -, 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde (5,7) |
| IMPORTANCE | The ___ of Being Earnest, play by Oscar Wilde first performed in 1895 (10) |
| ERNEST | Name adopted by both lead male characters in an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde (6) |
| SALOME | Play by Oscar Wilde forming basis for libretto of opera by Strauss (6) |
| FAN | 'Lady Windermere's ---', play by Oscar Wilde (3) |
| AWOMANOFNOIMPORTANCE | Play by Oscar Wilde |
| PADUA | Immortalised in The Taming of the Shrew and a play by Oscar Wilde, city in Veneto where Livy was born and Galileo taught at its university (5) |
| CONNEMARA | Coastal region of western Galway dominated by the Twelve Bens (or Pins) mountains; described by Oscar Wilde 'a savage beauty' (9) |
| AWOMAN | Well-known play by Oscar Wilde from 1893 (1,5,2,2,10) |
| OFNOIMPORTANCE | Well-known play by Oscar Wilde from 1893 (1,5,2,2,10) |
| AWOMANOFNO | And 11. 1893 play by Oscar Wilde (1,5,2,2,10) |
