| MAETERLINCK | Maurice, Belgian poet and dramatist who won the 1911 Nobel prize for literature (11) |
| MARIECURIE | She has a chemical element named for her -- and won both the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2 wds.) |
| HEBBEL | German poet and dramatist who won the Schiller Prize for the 1862 trilogy Die Nibelungen (6) |
| CURIE | Marie, winner of the 1911 Nobel prize for chemistry (5) |
| WILDER | Thornton ---, American novelist and dramatist who won three Pulitzer Prizes (6) |
| SOYINKA | Wole, Nigerian dramatist who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature (7) |
| MAMET | David ___ (b 1947), US dramatist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 (5) |
| SHAKESPEARE | English poet and dramatist who wrote "Othello," 1604 |
| INNOCENCEOF | And 7 The -, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton (9,2,6,5) |
| FATHERBROWN | The -, 1911 volume of short stories by G K Chesterton (9,2,6,5) |
| ELIOT | Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist who wrote Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party (5) |
| SACHS | Nelly ?, poet and dramatist who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature (5) |
| YEATS | W. B. -; Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist who founded with Lady Gregory what became known as the Abbey Theatre (5) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, poet and dramatist who authored stage plays The Jew of Malta and Edward II (7) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish wit, poet and dramatist who created the characters Lady Bracknell and Miss Prism (5,5) |
| TATE | Nahum ___, Irish poet and dramatist who served as Poet Laureate from 1692 to 1715 (4) |
| AUDEN | W. H. -; poet and dramatist who wrote three plays with Christopher Isherwood including The Ascent of F6 (5) |
| LORCA | Federico Garcia, Spanish poet and dramatist who authored the play Blood Wedding (5) |
| SCHILLER | Johann von --, German poet and dramatist who wrote the play Maria Stuart (8) |
| MARINETTI | Filippo Tommaso ___, Italian poet and dramatist who founded the Futurist movement in 1909 (9) |
