| HAMILTON | 2015 Broadway musical by US writer, singer and director Lin-Manuel Miranda; winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (8) |
| ACRES | A Thousand -; Jane Smiley's modernised adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear that earned her a Pulit |
| MIRANDA | Songwriter playwright and director Lin-Manuel |
| ISAACS | Writer Singer and inventor Singer |
| STEELE | Tommy ___, English actor, singer and director (6) |
| LIN | ___-Manuel Miranda, creator of the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton (3) |
| WICKED | 2003 musical by US composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz based on characters from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (6) |
| RENT | 1996 rock musical by US composer and lyricist Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme (1896) (4) |
| AMAZINGGRACE | Spiritual that lent its name to a 2015 Broadway musical |
| AMAZINGGR | Spiritual that lent its name to a 2015 Broadway musical |
| FUNH | Alison Bechdel memoir made into a hit 2015 Broadway musical |
| ELPHABA | Titular protagonist of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by US author Gregory Maguire (7,6) |
| THROPP | Titular protagonist of the 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by US author Gregory Maguire (7,6) |
| MANUELSANTOS | Juan ___, President of Colombia and winner of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize (6,6) |
| KENYA | African home country of Eliud Kipchoge, winner of the 2016 and 2020 Olympic marathons |
| ENYA | Writer/singer of an Elvish song for The Lord of the Rings |
| VANITIES | The Bonfire of the --------, a 1987 satirical novel by US writer Tom Wolfe (8) |
| SKERRIES | Which town in county Dublin was the overall winner of the 2016 Tidy Towns competition? (8) |
| EPICPOEM | The Song of Hiawatha, say, and English film by US writer, male |
| ANGELIQUEKERBER | Winner of the 2016 Australian and U.S. Opens |
