| ANTONINARTAUD | French dramatist who originated the theory of the Theatre of Cruelty (7,6) |
| EUGENEIONESCO | Romanian-born French playwright whose antiplay The Bald Soprano inspired the inauguration of the Theatre of the Absurd |
| EDMONDROSTAND | French dramatist who romanticised the life of Cyrano de Bergerac (6,7) |
| MARQUISDESADE | French aristocratic writer who gave his name to a type of cruelty (7,2,4) |
| IONESCO | Dramatist and leading exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd whose notable plays include The Bald Soprano (or The Bald Prima Donna) and Rhinoceros (7) |
| DARWINIAN | Relating to the theory of the origin of the species (9) |
| STREETTHEATER | Theater of cruelty |
| MOLIERE | Pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French dramatist who wrote Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives and The Bourgeois Gentleman (7) |
| DARWINITE | Advocate of the theory of the origin of species (alt. sp.); Wide train (anag.) (9) |
| GENET | Jean of the Theatre of the Absurd |
| LEISURE | 'The Theory of the ___ Class' (Veblen) |
| VEBLEN | Economist who wrote "The Theory of the Leisure Class" |
| HOYLE | English astronomer who rejected the "Big Bang" theory of the origins of the universe, d. 2001 (5) |
| GAMOW | Who (George ___), with Ralph Alpher and Hans Bethe, developed the "big bang" theory of the origin of the universe? (5) |
| SIRFREDHOYLE | English astronomer who propounded the steady state theory of the universe |
| LEMAITRE | Belgian astronomer who first proposed the big-bang theory of the universe (8) |
| SURVIVAL | Darwinian theory of the ... of the fittest (8) |
| BIGBANG | Theory of the explosive origin of the universe (3,4) |
| ABSURD | The Theatre of the --- is a term used to describe the works of Alfred Jarry and Eugene Ionesco (6) |
| ANOUILH | Jean, French dramatist who authored the plays Antigone and Becket (7) |
