| ESTRAGON | French name for the herb tarragon; character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot (8) |
| VLADIMIR | A Russian city; or, one of the characters in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot (8) |
| PONTIFEX | Central character in Samuel Butler's novel The Way Of All Flesh (6,8) |
| POZZO | Master of Lucky in 1953 Samuel Beckett stage play Waiting for Godot (5) |
| TRUELOVE | Name another term for the herb, paris (8) |
| ABSURD | Like the fact that (spoiler alert!) Godot never appears in the play "Waiting for Godot" |
| BECKETT | Who (Samuel ___) wrote the play Waiting for Godot? (7) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish writer, dramatist and poet best known for his play, Waiting For Godot (6,7) |
| ODETS | Clifford ?, author of stage play Waiting for Lefty |
| LASERWORT | An old name for the herb silphium, whose heart-shaped seedpods are said to have given rise to the heart symbol as a representation of love (9) |
| ERNEST | Central character in Samuel Butler's novel The Way Of All Flesh (6,8) |
| WORT | St John's ----, common name for the herb Hypericum perforatum (4) |
| ASPARAGUSPEA | Alternative name for the herb Lotus tetragonolobus (9-3) |
| GODOT | 1953 Samuel Beckett play, Waiting For _ (5) |
| REA | Stephen who will perform in Samuel Beckett's "Krapp's Last Tape" at NYU's Skirball Center this fall |
| NELL | Nagg's wife in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" |
| GERALDINE | Character in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel (9) |
| HANNAH | Biblical character in Samuel |
| FRENCH | Original language of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" (6) |
| RUE | Feel regret for the herb (3) |
