| SOPHOCLES | Greek tragedian whose works include Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex |
| TRAGEDY | Genre of "Hamlet" and "Oedipus Rex" |
| ILIAD | Epic whose characters include Ajax and Agamemnon |
| EURIPIDES | 5th-century BC Greek tragedian and the author of Medea (9) |
| THESPIS | Best-known agents casting English or Greek tragedian |
| AESCHYLUS | Ancient Greek tragedian, reputedly killed by a falling tortoise (9) |
| ORESTES | Only son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother to Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis (7) |
| BUSKIN | A boot or cothurnus of an ancient Greek tragedian; or, by extension, tragedy as a dramatic genre (6) |
| STRAVINSKY | Russian-born composer whose works include Oedipus Rex (10) |
| CHORUS | Greek tragedians first to celebrate sun-god |
| COLDHEARTED | Electra and Priscilla are so unsympathetic |
| PDQBACH | Ostensible composer of "The Abduction of Figaro" and "Oedipus Tex" |
| ONEILL | Eugene Gladstone -; dramatist who wrote Beyond the Horizon, Mourning Becomes Electra and Long Day's Journey into Night (1'5) |
| IRONICAL | Like Oedipus's curse in "Oedipus Rex" |
| DRAMA | Oedipus Rex or Antigone starts to become annoying in Greek city's endless play (1,6,5) |
| ATHEBAN | Oedipus Rex or Antigone starts to become annoying in Greek city's endless play (1,6,5) |
| PLAY | "Oedipus Rex" or "Waiting for Godot" |
| ISMENE | Antigone's sister in Sophocles immortal play Oedipus Rex |
| PEROXIDE | Without us, Oedipus Rex collapsed - shock treatment applied (8) |
| INCEST | One of the themes of "Oedipus Rex" |
