| OSCARWILDE | Author of stage plays An Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan |
| OSCAR | 2 and 3 Author of stage plays An Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan (5,5) |
| WILDE | Author of stage plays An Ideal Husband and Lady Windermere's Fan (5,5) |
| PRIESTLEY | J B ?, author of stage plays An Inspector Calls and Dangerous Corner |
| CARLISLE | Lady ___, Duchess of Berwick's daughter in Lady Windermere's Fan (8) |
| MRRIGHT | By the sound of it, failed to see a proper version of An Ideal Husband? |
| RUIN | "Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ___ of pretty ones", Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan. (4) |
| DARLINGTON | Lord ___"; character in Oscar Wildes Lady Windermeres Fan (10) |
| NORTHAM | Jeremy ___, actor whose films include Gosford Park, An Ideal Husband and Emma |
| RUPERTEVERETT | Actor in An Ideal Husband and Another Country (6,7) |
| ONESHOULDALWAYS | Start of a quote from "An Ideal Husband" |
| CRITIC | Has a right go at The Crucible and makes an ideal husband (6) |
| FLING | Cast presumably isn't an issue for An Ideal Husband (5) |
| BALCON | Jill ___, actress who played Lady Bracknell in 2009 film comedy An Ideal Husband (6) |
| BEWILDERED | Sounds like one of the honey producers produced Lady Windermere's fan with revolutionary at a loss ( |
| AGOODWOMAN | 2004 Scarlett Johansson film adapted from "Lady Windermere's Fan" |
| PLAYAJOKE | An ideal husband, for instance, is a laughing stock and open to ridicule (4,1,4) |
| EVERETT | Rupert of "An Ideal Husband" |
| RUPERT | Everett of "An Ideal Husband" |
| DISPLAYS | Shows papers sent back to an ideal husband in ship (8) |
