| AYCKBOURN | Dramatist from Scarborough who wrote The Norman Conquests trilogy of comedic plays based on six characters in one house over a single weekend (9) |
| FUNTHROUGHS | Rehearsals of comedic plays? |
| COMPUTERHACKERS | Web concerns ... and based on six familiar names hidden in rows 1, 4, 12 and 15 of this puzzle grid, |
| SITWELL | Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell ___: literary family from Scarborough, North Yorkshire (7) |
| CYMBELINE | Title character of one of Shakespeare's plays based on sources from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (9) |
| NORMAN | "The --- Conquests", trilogy of plays by Alan Ayckbourn (6) |
| FALSTAFF | Character in some of Shakespeare's plays based on Lollard leader Sir John Oldcastle (8) |
| ALAN | ___ Ayckbourn, dramatist whose plays include The Norman Conquests trilogy (4) |
| TABLEMANNERS | 1973 stage play by Alan Ayckbourn; first part of The Norman Conquests trilogy (5,7) |
| SOPHOCLES | Dramatist from Colonus |
| INGE | Dramatist from Kan. |
| IBSEN | Henrik -, dramatist from fourteen down (Hedda Gabler) |
| HEREWARD | _ the Wake, 11th-century Anglo-saxon leader who resisted the Norman conquest of England from his base on the Isle of Ely (8) |
| DARCY | Part of the 'Salford Hundred' given by William The Conqueror to Roger of Poitou for his role in the Norman Conquest of England; ___ Lever, is now an area of Bolton (5) |
| COURTENAY | Tom, actor who appeared in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests (9) |
| MIDDLEENGLISH | The language of parts of Britain from the Norman Conquest until the late 15th Century (6,7) |
| WILLIAM | In famous conflict, The Norman Conquests initially cut short when given to northern printer (7,6) |
| ALANCKBOURN | "The Norman Conquests" playwright |
| ALANAYCKBOURN | The Norman Conquests playwright (4,9) |
| HOUSECARL | Before the Norman Conquest, a member of the bodyguard of a Danish or English king or noble (9) |
