| ATHOL | Mr Fugard, dramatist whose works include Sizwe Banzi is Dead (5) |
| FUGARD | Athol ___, South African dramatist whose plays include Sizwe Bansi is Dead |
| ELIOT | T.S. ---, US-born British poet and dramatist whose works include The Waste Land (5) |
| DUMAS | Alexandre ---, French novelist and dramatist whose works include The Three Musketeers (5) |
| ELMER | US dramatist whose works include Street Scene and Dream Girl (5,4) |
| GOGOL | Nikolai, Russian dramatist whose works include The Government Inspector (5) |
| IBSEN | Norwegian dramatist whose works include 'Hedda Gabler' (5) |
| MAMET | David ___, US dramatist whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross (1984) (5) |
| ARDEN | John, English dramatist whose works include Live Like Pigs (5) |
| ALOES | Plants in an Athol Fugard play title |
| NOEL | Mr. Coward, English dramatist whose works include The Vortex (4) |
| RICE | US dramatist whose works include Street Scene and Dream Girl (5,4) |
| HENRYFIELDING | 18th-Century English novelist and dramatist whose works include Tom Jones (5,8) |
| DAVIDHARE | Olivier Award-winning English dramatist whose works include 2022's Straight Line Crazy (5,4) |
| PETERTERSON | Dramatist whose works include Zigger Zagger and The Apprentices (5,6) |
| NEILSIMON | US dramatist whose works include The Odd Couple (1965) and Plaza Suite (1968) (4,5) |
| EDWARDALBEE | US dramatist whose works include The Sandbox (1959) and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) (6,5) |
| CORNEILLE | Pierre, 17th Century French dramatist whose works include Cinna and Le Cid (9) |
| BERTOLTBRECHT | 7A dramatist whose works include The Threepenny Opera (7,6) |
| BEAUMARCHAIS | Pierre-Augustin Caron de ?, French dramatist whose works include 1767's Eugenie (12) |
