| DRYDEN | Dramatist and poet's humorously sarcastic study (6) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt ---, 20th Century German dramatist and poet (6) |
| JONSON | Ben _, English Renaissance dramatist and poet whose works included The Alchemist (6) |
| DEVEGA | Spanish dramatist and poet whose plays include The Loveless Forest (2,4) |
| IRONIC | Humorously sarcastic (6) |
| AIRDRY | Broadcast, humorously sarcastic, is to become desiccated, naturally (3-3) |
| ABODES | Houses sailor and poet's work (6) |
| BENJONSON | English dramatist and poet whose work includes Volpone and Every Man In His Humour (3,6) |
| HENRIKIBSEN | Norwegian dramatist and poet whose plays included Peer Gynt (6,5) |
| GREENE | Graham _, dramatist and writer of The Power and the Glory (6) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish writer, dramatist and poet best known for his play, Waiting For Godot (6,7) |
| SCHILLER | German dramatist and poet whose works include: Don Carlos, The Robbers and The Wallenstein Trilogy |
| EDMONDROSTAND | French dramatist and poet best-known for the 1897 verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac (6,7) |
| BERTOLTBRECHT | 20th-Century German dramatist and poet who wrote The Threepenny Opera (7,6) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ---, Elizabethan dramatist and poet whose plays include Tamburlaine and Edward II (7) |
| IBSEN | Henrik ___, Norwegian dramatist and poet whose plays include A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler |
| EDWARD | And 7 British dramatist and theatre director whose plays include 1965's Saved (6,4) |
| OCASEY | Sean ---, Irish dramatist and socialist whose works include Juno And The Paycock (6) |
| TATE | Nahum ___, British dramatist and poet appointed Poet Laureate in 1692 (4) |
| LOPE | Spanish dramatist and poet whose plays include The Loveless Forest (4) |
