| BRECHT | Bertolt ___ (1898 - 1956), German dramatist who wrote Mother Courage (1939) |
| GOETHE | German dramatist who wrote the tragic play 'Faust' (6) |
| BERTOLTBRECHT | German dramatist whose works include The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and her Children (7.6) |
| TITLEROLE | Distinctive name given to powerless worker - Mother Courage, for example |
| STREEPSHOW | The Delacorte Theater's "Mother Courage and Her Children"? |
| MOTHERCOURAGE | Play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht (1939) (6,7) |
| MEIR | Golda ___ (1898 - 1978), Russian-born Israeli politician who was Prime Minister (1969 -74) (4) |
| BANDA | Dr Hastings _ (1898-1997), politician who was president of Malawi (1964-1910 (5) |
| LORCA | Federico Garcia ___ (1898 - 1936), Spanish poet and dramatist (5) |
| THEOREM | Proposition Mother Courage ultimately abandoned (7) |
| ABZUG | Former congresswoman nicknamed Mother Courage |
| ROBESON | Paul ___, 1898-1976, bass- baritone, actor, NFL footballer and political activist who was the only African-American student when he went to Rutgers College in 1915 (7) |
| SCREW | The Turn of the ___ , 1898 Henry James horror story (5) |
| FIELDS | Gracie ___ (1898-1979), Rochdale-born entertainer (6) |
| ECHT | Genuine old railway initially shunned by German dramatist |
| CHILLER | Hair-raiser German dramatist hasn't started (7) |
| SCHILLER | Johann, German dramatist and poet whose plays include The Robbers (8) |
| WAR | Spanish-American ___ (1898 conflict) |
| KISS | "The ___", 1898 sculpture by Rodin (4) |
| STURGES | Preston ___ (1898-1959) |
