| WESKER | Arnold _, British dramatist whose works included Roots (1958) |
| LIVINGS | Henry ___, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum (7) |
| ELIOT | T S _, Us-born British poet and dramatist whose works included The Waste Land (1922) |
| PETER | British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| ALEXANDRE | --- Dumas, French novelist and dramatist whose works included The Three Musketeers (9) |
| HENRYFIELDING | 18th Century English novelist and dramatist whose works included Tom Jones (5,8) |
| ONEILL | Eugene ---, US dramatist whose works included the play The Iceman Cometh (1'5) |
| SOPHOCLES | Ancient Greek dramatist whose works included Antigone and Oedipus Rex (9) |
| RATTIGAN | Terence - - -, 20th Century British dramatist whose plays included The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version (8) |
| OCASEY | Sean - - -, Irish dramatist whose works included Juno And The Paycock, which premiered at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1924 (6) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher _, Elizabethan dramatist whose works included Tamburlaine The Great and The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (7) |
| ORTON | Joe -----, British dramatist whose plays include Loot (5) |
| OTWAY | Thomas ___, British dramatist l652-85 |
| TATE | Nahum ___, British dramatist and poet appointed Poet Laureate in 1692 (4) |
| MIKELEIGH | British dramatist and film director whose plays include Abigail's Party (4,5) |
| PALMER | Arnold ___, US golfer who won the Masters in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964 (6) |
| EDWARD | And 7 British dramatist and theatre director whose plays include 1965's Saved (6,4) |
| BENNETT | Arnold ___, author of novels Clayhanger and The Grand Babylon Hotel (7) |
| BAX | Arnold ___, English composer of symphonic poem Tintagel (3) |
| RIMMER | Chris Barrie's Red Dwarf hologram, Arnold _ (6) |