| FUGARD | Athol -, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island (6) |
| ORWELL | Writer whose nonfiction works include The Road to Wigan Pier |
| ATHOL | South African dramatist whose works include No Good Friday and The Island (5,6) |
| GREECE | Home to the poet Sappho and the island Lesbos, the origins of the words "sapphic" and "lesbian" |
| BRECHT | Bertolt ___, dramatist whose stage plays include Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (6) |
| CALMAC | Major operator of ferries between mainland Scotland and the islands off the west coast (6) |
| PETER | British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| HOLLOW | A sleepy one from where Athol Lowe comes from? (6) |
| IONESCO | Eugene ___, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros (7) |
| TEDIOUS | Eugene -, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros (7) |
| TSOTSI | Athol Fugard novel |
| SAUDIARABIA | Kingdom sometimes called 'The Land of The Two Holy Mosques' in reference to Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam (5,6) |
| DAVENANT | William -, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers (8) |
| EMLYNWILLIAMS | Welsh actor and dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
| WILLIAMS | Welsh actor and dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn ls Green (5,8) |
| EMLYN | Welsh actor and dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn ls Green (5,8) |
| GULFOFMANNAR | Large, shallow bay of the Indian Ocean between South East India and the island of Sri Lanka (4,2,6) |
| GLUCK | Christoph, German composer whose stage works include the ballet Don Juan (5) |
| ALLENDE | Isabel ___, author of novels City of the Beasts and The Island Beneath the Sea (7) |
| WELLS | HG ___, author of the stories The Time Machine and The Island of Dr Moreau (5) |
