| SEAN | Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish playwright who wrote "The Shadow of a Gunman" |
| OCASEY | Sean ___, Irish dramatist who wrote The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars |
| DOWNPLAY | Be discreet about what's not put across as a solution - it has the shadow of a gunman? (8) |
| SHERIDAN | Irish playwright who wrote The Rivals (8) |
| SUNDIAL | An old device for showing the time by the shadow of a pointer (7) |
| GUNMAN | The Shadow Of A ___: Sean O"Casey play. (6) |
| FORCERTAIN | Drive express train beyond the shadow of a doubt (3,7) |
| DOUBT | Beyond the shadow of a ___ |
| DESPAIR | "The shadow of a starless night," per Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| OSCAR | ___ Wilde the Irish playwright who wrote De Profundis during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol |
| BRECHTIAN | Suggestive of the style of the playwright who wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle (9) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt, the German playwright who wrote the text of The Threepenny Opera (6) |
| ANNULARECLIPSE | Astronomical event in which the moon passes over the sun so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon |
| BEHAN | Irish playwright who authored the 1958 play The Hostage, Brendan _ (5) |
| BENNETT | Actor, author and playwright who wrote the screenplay to the film based on his life The Lady in the Van (7) |
| WILDE | He was a witty, erudite playwright who wrote The Importance of Being Earnest. |
| PINTER | Harold ****** , playwright who wrote the screenplay for the 1963 film 'The Servant' (6) |
| GBS | Initially, the Irish playwright who helped TE Lawrence edit Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1,1,1) |
| SYNGE | Irish playwright who penned "Riders to the Sea" |
