| WESKER | Arnold, author of the play Roots (6) |
| BENNETT | Arnold -, author of the "Five Towns" novels set in the Staffordshire Potteries including Clayhanger and The Old Wives' Tale (7) |
| OCASEY | Sean, author of the play The Shadow of a Gunman (6) |
| MILLER | Author of the plays After the Fall and The Crucible (6,6) |
| ARTHUR | Author of the plays After the Fall and The Crucible (6,6) |
| PINERO | Arthur Wing, author of the play The Second Mrs Tanqueray (6) |
| ONEILL | Eugene, author of the play Desire under the Elms (6) |
| EUGENE | Author of the play Desire under the Elms (6) |
| PINTER | Harold, author of the plays The Birthday Party and The Lover (6) |
| BARRIE | JM, author of the play Peter Pan (6) |
| GOETHE | Johann Wolfgang von, author of the play Faust (6) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt, author of the play Mother Courage and her Children (6) |
| DRYDEN | John, author of the play All for Love (6) |
| SARDOU | Victorien, French author of the play La Tosca (6) |
| TOLLER | Ernst, German author of the plays Pastor Hall and Transfiguration (6) |
| MERCER | David. author of the plays After Haggerty and Flint (6) |
| 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) |
| SYNGE | J.M., author of the play The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| WEBSTER | John, author of the play The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
