| CHRISTIE | Agatha, author of the play The Mousetrap (8) |
| BURGOYNE | John --, British general in the American Revolutionary War, and author of the play 'The Maid of the Oaks' (8) |
| CONGREVE | William, author of the play The Way of the World (8) |
| SCHILLER | Johann, German author of the play The Robbers (8) |
| RATTIGAN | Terence, author of the play The Winslow Boy (8) |
| SHERIDAN | Writer of the plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal |
| SAUNDERS | English theatre impresario best known for bringing The Mousetrap to the London stage in 1952 (5,8) |
| ZANGWILL | see 6dn, British humorist and writer whose works include the novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and the play The Melting Pot |
| SNOWEDIN | Like the characters in Christie's "The Mousetrap" |
| WHODUNIT | Comedian entertains scruffy hound with the mousetrap (8) |
| SYNGE | JM, author of the play The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| END | Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap has been running for over 50 years in London's theatre district, the West ... |
| SERGEANTTROTTER | Detective character in Agatha Christie's popular murder mystery play The Mousetrap (8,7) |
| AGATHA | ___ Christie, English crime writer who wrote the 1952 play The Mousetrap (6) |
| WEBSTER | John, author of the play The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| ORTON | Joe --, author of the play 'The Ruffian On the Stair' (5) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean, French author of the play The Madwoman of Chaillot (9) |
| OCASEY | Sean, author of the play The Shadow of a Gunman (6) |
| TENNESSEEWILLIAMS | Author of the play, The Glass Menagerie (9,8) |
| FRAYN | Michael -; author of the plays The Two of Us and Noises Off and novels including The Tin Men, Sweet Dreams, Headlong and Spies (5) |
