| PETERTERSON | Dramatist whose works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| PETER | and 6dn, British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| TERSON | see 1ac, British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| EDWARDALBEE | US dramatist whose works include The Sandbox (1959) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) (6,5) |
| STRONG | Jeremy _, actor whose films include Molly's Game and The Apprentice (6) |
| SOYINKA | Dramatist whose works include The Lion and the Jewel and the poem Mohammad Ali At The Ring-Side In 1 |
| OCASEY | Sean ___, Irish dramatist whose works include Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars |
| IRONMASTER | Is the head of the smelting plant a martinet to the apprentices? (10) |
| BENNETT | Alan -; actor and dramatist whose works include the series of monologues Talking Heads and the play The History Boys (7) |
| ADRIAN | ___ Chiles, past presenter of TV series The One Show and The Apprentice: You're Fired (6) |
| ENTICE | Tempt and coax away several of the apprentices (6) |
| HARE | Sir David ---, English dramatist, whose works include the play Racing Demon and the screenplay for The Hours (4) |
| THOMASDEKKER | English poet and dramatist whose works include the plays Match Me in London and The Shoemaker's Holiday |
| PINERO | English dramatist whose works include The Enchanted Cottage, The Schoolmistress, The Second Mrs Tanqueray and Sweet Lavender (6) |
| ARISTOPHANES | Greek comic dramatist whose works include The Birds and The Frogs |
| JONSON | Surname of the dramatist whose works include Volpone and The Alchemist (6) |
| STUDENTS | The Apprentice's boss sent all over the place (8) |
| STUD | Boss getting rid of half the apprentices (4) |
| YINTRIGANTES | Four of the apprentices in company no longer |
| HEAP | Some of the apprentices make a pile (4) |
