| LUCE | Author of play "The Women" |
| RATTIGAN | Terence, author of play The Winslow Boy (8) |
| GENET | Jean, author of play The Balcony (5) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai, author of play The Government Inspector (5) |
| ALBEE | Author of play "The Zoo Story" |
| KLEIST | Heinrich von ---, author of play The Broken Pitcher (6) |
| TOMSTOPPARD | Author of the trilogy of plays The Coast of Utopia (3,8) |
| DELANEY | Shelagh, author of play A Taste of Honey (7) |
| UGOBETTI | Italian author of plays including Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, 1949) and La fuggitiva (The Fugitive, 1953) (3,5) |
| TESTY | At the close of play, the match is ill-humoured (5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel, author of play Waiting for Godot (7) |
| TOLSTOY | Author of play on Westward channel |
| MOLIERE | Sobriquet of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, author of plays including Tartuffe, Dom Juan and The Misanthrope (7) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley ___, Anglo-Irish author of plays including The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777) (8) |
| WILD | Angry author of plays on the radio |
| DARLENE | Writer of play about Lear's end (7) |
| DRABBLE | Writer of play about Lear's end (7) |
| DARIOFO | Italian author of plays including Accidental Death of an Anarchist 1970 (5,2) |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| ANTON | And 24 Russian author of plays including The Seagull (1895) (5,6) |
