| SYNGE | John Millington ___, Irish playwright best known for 1907's The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| ALBEE | Edward ___, American playwright best known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| ODETS | Clifford ___, American playwright best known for Waiting for Lefty |
| FRAYN | Michael ___, British playwright best known for Noises Off |
| MUNCH | Edvard ___, Norwegian painter whose works include 1907's The Sick Child (5) |
| WILDE | Oscar _; Irish playwright (5) |
| WILLIAMGOLDING | British novelist, poet, playwright best known for his novel Lord of the Flies |
| ENID | --- Bagnold, British author and playwright best known for the 1935 story National Velvet (4) |
| SOPHOCLES | One of the three great Athenian tragic playwrights, best known for Oedipus Rex (9) |
| CHRISTYMAHON | Title character of the 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World (7,5) |
| SARAALLGOOD | Irish actress who created the part of Widow Quin in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (4,7) |
| JMSYNGE | Irish playwright whose works include The Playboy of the Western World (1,1,5) |
| JOHNOSBORNE | English playwright best known for his 1956 play Look Back in Anger (4,7) |
| SUETOWNSEND | English novelist and playwright best known for creating Adrian Mole |
| SHAWNKEOGH | Lover of Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World |
| ARAN | A group of Irish islands that inspired John Millington Synge (4) |
| THEPLAYBOYOFTHEWESTERNWORLD | Three-act play by John Millington Synge that provoked riots when it opened at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January 1907 |
| RIDERSTOTHESEA | Play by John Millington Synge; opera by Ralph Vaughan Williams (6,2,3,3) |
| SHAW | George Bernard _, Irish playwright famous for works including Major Barbara (1905) |
| OCASEY | SeAn __, Irish playwright long associated with the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (6) |
