| ANOUILH | Jean, French dramatist who authored 1944's Antigone (7) |
| FEYDEAU | Georges, French dramatist who authored the farce Un fil a la patte (7) |
| MOLIERE | Pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French dramatist who wrote Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives and The Bourgeois Gentleman (7) |
| IONESCO | Eugene, Romanian-born French dramatist who was associated with the Theatre of the Absurd (7) |
| ARBUZOV | Alexei, Russian dramatist who authored 1939's Tanya (7) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, poet and dramatist who authored stage plays The Jew of Malta and Edward II (7) |
| COCTEAU | Jean, French writer and artist who died in 1963 (7) |
| FRESNEL | Augustin-Jean ---, French physicist after whom a type of lens and a unit of frequency were named (7) |
| GROLIER | Jean, French bibliophile (1479-1565) |
| RACINE | Jean --, French dramatist, author of 'Andromaque' (6) |
| EDMONDROSTAND | French dramatist who romanticised the life of Cyrano de Bergerac (6,7) |
| SCRIBE | Eugene, French dramatist who co-authored the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur (6) |
| ANTONINARTAUD | French dramatist who originated the theory of the Theatre of Cruelty (7,6) |
| SARDOU | Victorien, French dramatist who wrote the play La Tosca (6) |
| SOPHOCLES | Greek dramatist who authored Antigone (9) |
| KYD | Thomas ___, 16th-century English dramatist who authored The Spanish Tragedy (3) |
| FLETCHER | John, English Jacobean dramatist who authored The Wilde Goose Chase (8) |
| OTWAY | Thomas, English dramatist who authored the 1675 play Alcibiades (5) |
| FERENCMOLNAR | Dramatist who authored 1909 stage play Liliom (6,6) |
| ODETS | Clifford, American dramatist who authored Golden Boy (5) |
