| JOEORTON | Dramatist who wrote Entertaining Mr Sloane (3,5) |
| KINGSLEY | John --, given names of the playwright who wrote 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' (8) |
| ORTON | Joe -, dramatist (Entertaining Mr Sloane) |
| ANDREWS | Harry ?, actor who played Ed in 1970 comedy Entertaining Mr Sloane |
| HARRYANDREWS | English actor whose screen roles included the predatory brother of Beryl Reid in Entertaining Mr. Sloane (5,7) |
| HANCOCK | Sheila - 1966 Tony Award Best Actress in a Play nominee for Entertaining Mr Sloane (7) |
| ALMONERS | Mister Sloane worked with old social workers (8) |
| STOPPARD | Tom -; dramatist who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and co-wrote the screenplay to the film Shakespeare in Love (8) |
| WILLIAMS | Tennessee -; dramatist who wrote A Streetcar Named Desire (8) |
| SCHILLER | Dramatist who wrote Mary Stuart (8) |
| MENANDER | Greek poet and comic dramatist who wrote the play Dyskolos (8) |
| STEPHENS | Sloane _, American tennis player who won the 2017 US Open (8) |
| CONGREVE | William ___; English dramatist who wrote Love for Love and The Way of the World (8) |
| SHERIDAN | Dramatist who wrote the comic plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| VANBRUGH | John -; architect and dramatist who wrote The Provoked Wife and designed Blenheim Palace with Nicholas Hawksmoor (8) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ---, 19th Century Russian novelist and dramatist who wrote the play A Month In The Country (8) |
| BEAUMONT | Francis _, English Renaissance dramatist who wrote The Knight Of The Burning Pestle (8) |
| FIELDING | Henry ___, 18th-century English novelist and dramatist who wrote Tom Jones (1749) |
| NICKFROST | English actor who played the titular character in Mr. Sloane (4,5) |
| SLOANE | Entertaining Mr ____ , black comedy play by English dramatist Joe Orton first performed in 1964 (6) |
