| PETERHALL | British theatre director who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1960 (5,4) |
| SHER | Antony, South African-born actor who joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 (4) |
| IACHIMO | Character played by Jamie Wilkes in a Gregory Doran production of Cymbeline at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2023 (7) |
| SILENCE | Short play by Harold Pinter premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1969, directed by Peter Hall |
| LITTLEWOOD | Joan ___, British theatre director who founded the Theatre Workshop in 1945 (10) |
| TERRYHANDS | English theatre director who founded the Liverpool Everyman Theatre and ran the RSC for 13 years |
| REBECCA | Actress whose father founded the Royal Shakespeare Company (7,4) |
| HALL | Actress whose father founded the Royal Shakespeare Company |
| STRASBERG | Lee ---, theatre director who pioneered method acting |
| PAPP | Joseph ?, American theatre producer-director who founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954 (4) |
| BERNARDMILES | British actor and stage director who founded the Mermaid Theatre in 1959 (7,5) |
| HANDS | Sets of 13 cards held by players in bridge; pointers on the faces of clocks/ watches; or, the Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director 1986-91 (5) |
| GRESHAM | Thomas, English financier who founded the Royal Exchange in London in 1568 (7) |
| PETER | Titled theatre director who succeeded Olivier as director of the National Theatre in 1973 (5,4) |
| POWELL | Michael -; director who founded the Archers film production company with Emeric Pressburger (6) |
| TREE | Herbert Beerbohm - - -, actor and theatre manager who founded the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1904 (4) |
| NINETTE | ___ de Valois, Irish-born British choreographer who founded the Royal Ballet (7) |
| SCYTHER | One making sweeping cuts in the Royal Shakespeare company with impunity at last when recycling |
| MIA | ___ Farrow, the first American actress to join the Royal Shakespeare Company (3) |
| HAIG | Commander-in-chief during the Battle of the Somme who co-founded the Royal British Legion (4) |
