| SLOANE | Entertaining Mr ___ , black comedy play by English dramatist Joe Orton first performed in 1964 (6) |
| BUTLERSAW | Play by Joe Orton first performed in 1969 (4,3,6,3) |
| WHATTHE | Play by Joe Orton first performed in 1969 (4,3,6,3) |
| LOOT | First farce by controversial British dramatist Joe Orton, premiered in 1965 (4) |
| ARSENICANDOLDLACE | Joseph Kesselring black comedy play about the Brewster family |
| RAOUL | "Eating ___" (black comedy of 1982) |
| LOTUS | The White ___, black comedy drama starring Aimee Lou Wood (5) |
| RIVALS | "The ...", 1775 comedy play by RB Sheridan (6) |
| NOISES | ------ Off, comedy play by Michael Frayn (6) |
| FARCES | Comedy plays for which dramatist Georges Feydeau was famous (6) |
| RITA | Educating ____, play by English dramatist Willy Russell that premiered in 1980 (4) |
| ROPE | 1948 Alfred Hitchcock film based on a play by English dramatist Patrick Hamilton (4) |
| BETRAYAL | 1978 play by English dramatist Harold Pinter about an extramarital affair (8) |
| WHATYOUWILL | Subtitle of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night; also, a 1601 play by English dramatist John Marston (4,3,4) |
| TERENCE | Recent plays by English dramatist |
| BLITHESPIRIT | Comedy play by Noel Coward (6,6) |
| IDLENESS | Love in , comedy play by Terence Rattigan published in 1944 (8) |
| WEDDING | The ___, one-act comedy play by Anton Chekhov whose premiere was in 1900 (7) |
| NOISESOFF | 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn based around a production of the play Nothing On |
| LOTHARIO | Heartless libertine and seducer of Calista in the 1703 tragedy The Fair Penitent by English dramatist Nicholas Rowe (8) |
