| GOETHE | Johann Wolfgang von -; German poet, playwright and novelist who wrote Faust (6) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt --, German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer (6) |
| WILDE | Oscar -; poet, playwright and novelist whose character Lady Bracknell has been portrayed by Edith Evans and Judi Dench (5) |
| ALEXANDER | Russian poet, playwright and novelist of the Romantic era, _ Pushkin (9) |
| JMBARRIE | Playwright and novelist who created Never Never Land (1,1,6) |
| SCHILLER | Johann von --, German poet and dramatist who wrote the play Maria Stuart (8) |
| MIRROR | "Behaviour is the ___ in which everyone shows their image": Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (6) |
| PAGNOL | Marcel - - -, French dramatist, filmmaker and novelist who wrote Jean De Florette and Manon Des Sources (6) |
| SARTRE | Existentialist philosopher and novelist who wrote Nausea and turned down a Nobel Prize (6) |
| SYLVIA | Tragic poet and novelist who wrote The Bell Jar, ... Plath |
| JOHANN | - - - Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and statesman whose works included The Sorrows Of Young Werther (6) |
| BARRIE | Playwright and novelist whose summer spent on the Scottish isle of Eilean Shona inspired his make-believe world Neverland, inhabited by Lost Boys, mermaids, Peter Pan and a fairy he called Tinker Bell |
| LIEBIG | Justus von, German chemist who specialised in analysing organic compounds (6) |
| REUTER | Paul von --, German telegrapher who founded a news agency in London in 1851 (6) |
| PINERO | This 2001 biopic was based on the life of a Nuyorican poet-playwright (6) |
| FLOTOW | Friedrich von ..., German composer whose opera Martha was first performed in 1847 (6) |
| MCNEIL | Canadian poet/playwright Florence |
| ONEILL | "A Touch of the Poet" playwright |
| DRYDEN | English poet/playwright |
| TASSO | 16th-century Italian poet and courtier described in a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (5) |
