| SHAKESPEARE | Great playwright and poet (11) |
| MARLOWE | "Tamburlaine the Great" playwright |
| CLEOPATRA | Panto "Ana Co" ardently played turned out to be one from the great playwright (6,3,9) |
| ANTONYAND | Panto "Ana Co" ardently played turned out to be one from the great playwright (6,3,9) |
| FLECKER | Novelist, playwright and poet whose works include The Golden Journey to Samarkand, The Old Ships and Hassan (7) |
| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet and the only person buried upright in Westminster Abbey (3,6) |
| CONGREVE | William ___, English playwright and poet whose comedies include Love for Love and The Way of the World |
| BRECHT | German playwright and poet, 1898-1956, who co-wrote The Threepenny Opera and wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (6) |
| IBSEN | Norwegian playwright and poet |
| GOETHE | German playwright and poet |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas _, English Jacobean playwright and poet (9) |
| SCHILLER | German playwright and poet (8) |
| WILDE | Oscar -, playwright and poet (5) |
| MCGRATH | Tom ----, radical Scottish playwright and poet (7) |
| COLLEYCIBBER | Actor-manager, playwright and poet laureate who was the chief target of Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad (6,6) |
| APHRABEHN | English Restoration playwright and poet noted for The Rover (5,4) |
| JOHNGAY | English playwright and poet of the early 18th century (4,3) |
| CIBBER | Colley ___, English actor, playwright and Poet Laureate (1730-57) (6) |
| ROSTAND | Edmond ___, French playwright and poet best known for his verse drama Cyrano de Bergerac |
| PETERQUINCE | The playwright and carpenter in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
