| SYNGE | J M ___ (1871 - 1909), Irish dramatist who wrote The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| BRIAN | Irish dramatist who wrote the 1990 play Dancing At Lughnasa, _ Friel (5) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Irish dramatist who adapted Shakespeare's King Lear with a happy ending and was appointed England's poet laureate in 1692 (5) |
| YEATS | Irish dramatist who co-founded the Abbey Theatre |
| EBERT | Friedrich ___ (1871-1925), German Social Democratic statesman; first president of Germany (1919-25) (5) |
| WILDE | Irish dramatist who examined his life in "De Profundis" while imprisoned in 1897 |
| OSCAR | Irish dramatist who examined his life in "De Profundis" while imprisoned in 1897 |
| SARAALLGOOD | Irish actress who created the part of Widow Quin in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (4,7) |
| OCASEY | Sean ___, Irish dramatist who wrote The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars |
| CHRISTYMAHON | Title character of the 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World (7,5) |
| JMSYNGE | Irish playwright whose works include The Playboy of the Western World (1,1,5) |
| SLOAN | U.S. painter John ___: 1871-1951 |
| SHAWNKEOGH | Lover of Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish dramatist who wrote the play Juno And The Paycock (4,6) |
| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Irish dramatist who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield |
| COETZEE | J.M. ___ Waiting for the Barbarians author who is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| SOUNDSTAGE | A good place to see Playboy of the Western World from listening post (5,5) |
| BECKETT | Samuel , Irish dramatist who wrote Waiting For Godot (7) |
| ROUAULT | The paintings of Georges ____ (1871-1958) combined elements of fauvism and expressionism |
| IRON | and 7ac, The ___, 1871 novel by R M Ballantyne (4,5) |
