| HENSLOWE | Elizabethan bear-baiter, diarist and impresario who co-founded or established former theatres including the Fortune, the Hope and the Rose (8) |
| CONDITAEERANT | Urbes ____ ____, the cities had been founded (or hidden) |
| ODEON | Cineplex ? (former theater chain) |
| ALLEYN | Elizabethan actor and impresario who founded Dulwich College (6) |
| BEECHAM | Thomas, conductor and impresario who was born in 1879 (7) |
| ENOSSLAUGHTER | After the 1946 World Series, the dugout was filled with the Cardinals and their happy sounds, includ |
| KOKO | Concert venue and former theatre in Camden, London |
| LHASA | French article has includ-ed the once Forbidden City (5) |
| COLLINS | A friend of Charles Dickens considered by some to be the first detective novelist whose books includ |
| DEJONGH | Nicholas ___, former theatre critic whose first play, Plague Over England, was staged in 2008 (2,5) |
| STOCKBROKER | Bear baiter ___ or did the bulls bust "er? (11) |
| DIAGHILEV | Sergei ___, Russian ballet impresario who founded and directed the Ballet Russe in Paris |
| TROTH | The fact of being genuine or veracious; knowledge or established facts; agreement with reality; or, the quality of allegiance or faithfulness (5) |
| CHIPS | Nickname of author, diarist and politician Sir Henry Channon who restored Kelvedon Hall; tokens for blackjack, poker or roulette; pommes frites; or, slices of dried banana (5) |
| DOYLYCARTE | Richard ___, the London impresario who founded the Savoy Theatre as a showcase for the extremely popular Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (5,5) |
| FOOTING | Word for a firm foundation, upon which to literally or figuratively stand; a position or established place; a tread; a dance; or, plain cotton lace (7) |
| RITUAL | The prescribed or established form of a religious or other ceremony (6) |
| EVELYN | Diarist and founding fellow of the Royal Society who, on December 25 in 1657, found himself arrested at gunpoint and detained as a prisoner for attending church during the Puritan ban on Christmas (6) |
| VITA | Latin for "life" and a name of the author, diarist and poet, nee Sackville-West, who created the celebrated Sissinghurst Castle Garden with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson (4) |
| CECIL | --- Beaton, 20th Century English photographer, diarist and stage and costume designer (5) |
