| FRAYN | Michael ....., playwright whose works include Noises Off and Copenhagen (5) |
| FARCE | Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," for one |
| WILDE | Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome (5,5) |
| OSCAR | Irish poet and playwright whose works include Salome (5,5) |
| MAMET | American playwright whose works include Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow (5,5) |
| DAVID | American playwright whose works include Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow (5,5) |
| CAINE | Michael of "Noises Off" |
| BEHAN | Surname of the Irish author and playwright whose works include The Quare Fellow and Borstal Boy (5) |
| IBSEN | Henrik ___, Norwegian playwright whose works include A Doll's House and Hedda Gabler (5) |
| CARYL | --- Churchill, British playwright whose works include Top Girls and A Number (5) |
| REEVE | Christopher of "Noises Off" |
| FANNY | 19th-century English stage actress and playwright whose works include Francis the First (5,6) |
| UDALL | Nicholas ___, 16th-century English playwright whose works include comedy Ralph Roister Doister (5) |
| ATHOL | ___ Fugard, South African playwright whose works include The Island (5) |
| SYNGE | John Millington ---, Irish playwright whose works include The Playboy Of The Western World (5) |
| ALBEE | US playwright whose works include 1962's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (6,5) |
| FARCES | "Noises Off" and others |
| INON | Privy to institute in the middle of Grenoble and Copenhagen finally (2,2) |
| OSLO | Third-largest city in Scandinavia (after Stockholm and Copenhagen) |
| ABUNDANCE | Natives of Havana and Copenhagen played together with plentiful supply (9) |