| JOHNGAY | Dramatist who wrote The Beggar's Opera (4,3) |
| GAY | John who wrote "The Beggar's Opera" |
| PEPUSCH | Johann Christoph -, composer who arranged the music for 1728's The Beggar's Opera by John Gay (7) |
| PEACHUM | Macheath's wife in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical The Beggar's Opera (5,7) |
| BRECHT | Playwright and poet who adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into The Threepenny Opera with composer Kurt Weill (6) |
| THREEPENNY | 'The -- Opera' by Brecht and Weill is a version of Gay's The Beggar's Opera (10) |
| GAYLY | "The Beggar's Opera," wrote John ___ |
| WEBSTER | Lexicographer noted for his 1806 publication A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language; or, the dramatist who wrote The Duchess of Malfi (7) |
| POLLY | Macheath's wife in the Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht musical The Beggar's Opera (5,7) |
| NORSA | Hannah ***** , actress who appeared in 'The Beggar's Opera' in 1732 (5) |
| CHEKHOV | Anton -; Russian dramatist who wrote The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard (7) |
| IONESCO | Romanian-born dramatist who wrote the 1959 play Rhinoceros (7) |
| ANOUILH | Jean _, French dramatist who wrote the 1944 play Antigone (7) |
| ROSTAND | Edmond, dramatist who wrote the 1897 play Cyrano De Bergerac (7) |
| HANDOUT | What the beggar may have is a free leaflet (7) |
| ELGRECO | "St. Martin and the Beggar" painter |
| MACHEATH | Captain of a gang of robbers in The Beggar's Opera (8) |
| KUSHNER | Tony, U.S. dramatist who wrote the two-part play Angels in America (7) |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
