| IONESCO | Eugene -. Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros (7) |
| TEDIOUS | Eugene -, Romanian dramatist whose stage works include Exit the King and Rhinoceros (7) |
| FUGARD | Athol ___, South African dramatist whose stage works include The Road to Mecca and The Island (6) |
| PETER | British dramatist whose stage works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| LIVINGS | Henry ?, British dramatist whose stage plays include Eh? and Nil Carborundum |
| KOPS | Bernard ?, playwright whose stage works include Dreams of Anne Frank and Call in the Night (4) |
| DAVENANT | William ?, poet and playwright whose stage works include The Platonick Lovers |
| EDGAR | David -, playwright whose stage works include Maydays and the Pentecost (5) |
| NOEL | Playwright whose stage works include Private Lives and Hay Fever (4,6) |
| GLUCK | Christoph, German composer whose stage works include the ballet Don Juan (5) |
| NOELCOWARD | Playwright whose stage works include Present Laughter and Design for Living (4,6) |
| DEPLANE | Exit the Airbus |
| CHAPLIN | Tom, lead singer of Keane whose stage name on the third series of The Masked Singer was Poodle (7) |
| THEATRE | Place for stage works (7) |
| ROSSINI | Producer of stage works skinned zebra? Source of indignation |
| REUBENS | Paul, actor whose stage name is Pee-wee Herman (7) |
| ONEACTS | Short stage works |
| TEMPEST | Marie, English actress whose stage roles included Judith Bliss in a 1925 production of Noel Coward's Hay Fever (7) |
| STROMAE | "Papaoutai" singer whose stage name is an anagram of maestro |
| EMLYNWILLIAMS | Welsh actor and dramatist whose stage plays include Night Must Fall and The Corn Is Green |
