| SPIKEMILLIGAN | Comedian, writer and playwright, 1918-2002, who was a member of The Goons (5,8) |
| ELTON | Ben ___, English comedian, author and playwright (5) |
| STEVEBURNS | Original host of 12-Across (1996-2002) who returns to the series for the first time in 21 years on Friday with a new mystery |
| DRINKWATER | "Abraham Lincoln" playwright: 1918 |
| MILLIGAN | Spike ___, writer and member of The Goons comedy team who died in 2002 (8) |
| BENTINE | Michael ___, comedian and former member of the Goons who died in 1996 (7) |
| SECOMBE | Sir Harry ..., Welsh comedian and singer who was a member of "The Goon Show" (7) |
| HARRY | Member of The Goons who played Mr Bumble in the film Oliver! (5,7) |
| MICHAEL | Founding member of the Goons whose Potty Time ran on ITV from 1973 to 1980 (7,7) |
| LYLY | Euphuism was the distinctive style of Elizabethan writer and playwright John ____ |
| SEANHUGHES | British-born Irish comedian, writer and actor who was a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks from 1996 to 2002 (4,6) |
| SPIKE | Comedian, writer, poet and one of The Goons, ... Milligan |
| BENNETT | Actor, author and playwright who wrote the screenplay to the film based on his life The Lady in the Van (7) |
| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| RUSSELL | English comedian, writer and actor who features in the 2014 documentary, A Royal Hangover, - Brand (7) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish author and playwright who only wrote one novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (5,5) |
| EDGAR | Crime writer and playwright, c-ocreator of King Kong ,_ Wallace (5) |
| ALFREDNOYES | English poet. short-story writer and playwright whose best-known poem is The Highwayman (6.5) |
| GOGOL | 19th-century Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright of Ukrainian origin, Nikolai _ (5) |
| BENELTON | British comedian, writer and director who co-wrote the sitcom Blackadder (3,5) |
