| GIRAUDOUX | Jean -, French writer whose plays include The Madwoman of Chaillot and Ondine (9) |
| GENET | Jean, French writer whose plays include The Maids (5) |
| AURELIA | Countess --, role played by Katharine Hepburn in the 1969 film 'The Madwoman of Chaillot' (7) |
| IRMA | Nanette Newman's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" role |
| EMILEZOLA | French writer whose novels included Nana (1880) |
| ANTONCHEKHOV | Russian dramatist and shortstory writer whose plays include The Seagull and The Cherry Orchard (5,7) |
| BENNETT | Alan -; dramatist, actor and author whose plays include Forty Years On, The Madness of George III and The History Boys (7) |
| BRENDAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| BEHAN | Irish writer whose plays include The Quare Fellow (7,5) |
| ALANBENNETT | English writer whose plays include The History Boys (4,7) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish writer whose plays include Endgame and Waiting for Godot (7) |
| ANOUILH | Jean -, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket (7) |
| CHAILLOT | "The Madwoman of ___" (Giraudoux play) |
| LOH | Sandra Tsing ___ (author of 2020's "The Madwoman and the Roomba: My Year of Domestic Mayhem") |
| COCTEAU | Jean ---, French writer and artist who made the film La Belle Et La Bete (7) |
| HUGO | Victor ---, 19th Century French writer whose works include the novels Les Miserables and Notre-Dame De Paris (4) |
| PROSPER | French writer whose novella Carmen was the basis of Bizet's opera (7,7) |
| MERIMEE | French writer whose novella Carmen was the basis of Bizet's opera (7,7) |
| ZOLA | Emile ---, French writer whose novels include Nana and Germinal (4) |
| COLETTE | French writer whose works include the novella Gigi (7) |
