| LORCA | Federica Garcia --, 1898-1936, Spanish poet and playwright (5) |
| WILDE | Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome (5,5) |
| OSCAR | Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome (5,5) |
| SYNGE | Irish poet and playwright, d. 1909 (5) |
| NELLY | --- Sachs, poet and playwright awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966 (5) |
| APHRA | English poet and playwright ot the Restoration era, _ Behn (5) |
| DYLAN | - Thomas, great Welsh poet and playwright who enned Under Milk Wood (5) |
| YEATS | W.B. --, Irish poet and playwright (5) |
| JAMES | New Zealand poet and playwright (5,1,6) |
| SCOTT | Sir Walter ___ poet and playwright who is famous for works like Ivanhoe and Waverly |
| PSHAW | Expressed impatience with leading poet and playwright |
| JONES | Before Baraka poet and playwright LeRoi |
| IBSEN | Norwegian poet and playwright |
| CAROLANNDUFFY | Scottish poet and playwright who was poet laureate from 2009 to 2019 (5,3,5) |
| OSCARWILDE | Lost war, so El Cid became a famous poet and playwright (5,5) |
| TSELIOT | Poet and playwright whose works include The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock, Murder in the Cathedral and The Waste Land (1,1,5) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Which English poet and playwright wrote Pericles and Cymbeline? (11) |
| KBAXTER | New Zealand poet and playwright (5,1,6) |
| FEDERICOGARCIALORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director killed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War |
| APOLLINAIRE | Guillaume ___, French poet and playwright who coined the term surrealist (11) |