| LERNER | Lyricist who adapted "Pygmalion" |
| GREG | Daniels who adapted "The Office" for NBC |
| ANITA | Loos who adapted "Gigi" |
| 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) |
| EDGAR | Dramatist who adapted Nicholas Nickleby for the RSC in 1980 (5) |
| LEAN | Filmmaker who adapted E. M. Forster's 1924 novel A Passage to India to screen (4) |
| BOLT | Robert -; dramatist who adapted his play A Man for All Seasons to film and co-wrote the screenplay to David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| LOACH | Ken -; director who adapted A Kestrel for a Knave to screen with the latter's author Barry Hines (5) |
| XIAOPING | Deng, Chinese leader born in 1904 who adapted communism to incorporate elements of the free market system (8) |
| WHITE | Author who adapted Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur into The Once and Future King quartet and wrote the study on falconry The Goshawk (5) |
| BRECHT | Playwright and poet who adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into The Threepenny Opera with composer Kurt Weill (6) |
| SORKIN | Writer who adapted the book for a Broadway play in 2018 |
| HAROLDPINTER | Playwright who adapted The French Lieutenant's Woman for the big screen (6,6) |
| HEAVISIDE | Oliver ___, self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits |
| HART | Lorenz, lyricist who collaborated with Richard Rodgers (4) |
| PARODIST | Standard lyricist who produces satire (8) |
| TIMRICE | Lyricist who co-wrote Evita etc (3,4) |
| LORENZ | -- Hart, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers (6) |
| IRA | ___ Gershwin (lyricist who wrote with his brother, George) |
| LORENZHART | US lyricist who partnered Richard Rodgers (6,4) |
