| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| BEHAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish writer whose plays include Endgame and Waiting for Godot (7) |
| BRENDANBEHAN | Famous navigator and outlaw shelter the man returning as the quare fellow was his (7,5) |
| ANTONCHEKHOV | Russian dramatist and shortstory writer whose plays include The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard (5,7) |
| PIKETHEATRE | Dublin playhouse where the premiere of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow was given (4,7) |
| PLAYINGFIELDS | Pitches to the quare fellow popular on golf greens (7,6) |
| ARISTOPHANES | Greek comic dramatist whose plays include The Frogs (12) |
| GIRAUDOUX | Jean ?, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine (9) |
| GENET | Jean, French writer whose plays include The Maids (5) |
| ALANBENNETT | English writer whose plays include The History Boys (4,7) |
| CECELIAAHERN | Irish author whose novels include PS, I Love You and Where Rainbows End (7,5) |
| BENNETT | Alan -; dramatist, actor and author whose plays include Forty Years On, The Madness of George III and The History Boys (7) |
| EDNA | ___ O'Brien, Irish writer whose novels include The Country Girls (4) |
| HELLMAN | Dramatist whose plays include The Autumn Garden, Toys in the Attic, The Children's Hour and The Litt |
| OBRIEN | Edna - - -, Irish writer whose first novel was The Country Girls (6) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish writer whose only novel is The Picture of Dorian Gray |
| LILLIANHELLMAN | American dramatist whose plays include The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic |
| LILLIAN | American dramatist whose plays include The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes and Toys in the Attic (7,7) |
| FLETCHER | John ?, Jacobean dramatist whose plays include The Island Princess and The Faithful Shepherdess |
