| ARISTOPHANES | Greek comic dramatist - writer of Lysistrata, d. about 385 BC (12) |
| ALAN | - Bennett, English actor, dramatist, writer |
| OVID | Roman poet, d. about AD17 (4) |
| HOMESTRAIGHT | Marathoner's 385 yards? |
| MENANDER | Greek comic dramatist whose only complete extant comedy is Dyskolos |
| TIRSODEMOLINA | Spanish dramatist, author of The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest (5,2,6) |
| RACINE | French dramatist, author of Phedre, d. 1699 (6) |
| AESCHYLUS | Ancient Greek dramatist, author of 'Prometheus Bound' (9) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek dramatist, author of Oedipus Rex (9) |
| CONGREVE | William -, English dramatist, author of The Way of the World (8) |
| EURIPIDES | Greek dramatist, author of Electra (9) |
| COCTEAU | French dramatist, author of 'Les Enfants Terribles' (7) |
| PINERO | English dramatist, author of the farce 'Dandy Dick' (6) |
| JOEORTON | English dramatist, author of 'What the Butler Saw' (3,5) |
| ALANPLATER | Dramatist; author of ITV's The Beiderbecke Trilogy and BBC TV series Trinity Tales |
| TERENCERATTIGAN | British dramatist, author of Separate Tables (7,8) |
| SHERIDAN | Irish dramatist, author of The School for Scandal (8) |
| IBSEN | Dramatist, author of Peer Gynt (5) |
| MOLIERE | French dramatist, author of Tartuffe (7) |
| WILY | Crafty group of women meeting leading couple from Lysistrata (4) |
