| PRIESTLEY | Playwright (surname) who wrote The Good Companions and An Inspector Calls (9) |
| JBPRIESTLEY | English author whose works include The Good Companions (novel, 1929) and An Inspector Calls (play, 1945) (1,1,9) |
| COWARD | Late playwright (surname) who wrote Blithe Spirit (6) |
| DAHL | Late children's author (surname) who wrote the screenplay for 15, 22 across, 5 down (4) |
| EXAMINER | Former partner, a miner, and an inspector (8) |
| ASYOUWERE | In our easy bandying, my companions and I relax (2,3,4) |
| ELSEWHERE | The Spanish to stitch up his companion and sweetheart in another place (9) |
| ASSOCIATE | Companion and I must visit sea-coast for a swim |
| SAMWELLER | Mr Pickwick's companion and servant (3,6) |
| ELI | Wallach who wrote "The Good, the Bad, and Me" |
| LEANNE | Brown who wrote the "Good and Cheap" cookbook |
| HASEK | Jaroslav ___, Czech novelist and short-story writer who wrote The Good Soldier Schweik |
| NADER | Ralph who wrote "The Good Fight" |
| IRISMURDOCH | Dame who wrote "The Good Apprentice" |
| PEARLSBUCK | *Literature Nobelist who wrote "The Good Earth" |
| OAKROYD | Jess ____’s decision to go “on t’road” starts JB Priestley’s The Good Companions |
| GOGOL | Playwright (surname) responsible for The Government Inspector (5) |
| SYNGE | Playwright (surname) whose The Playboy of the Western World caused riots in 1907 (5) |
| BRAHMS | 19th-century German composer (surname) who wrote A German Requiem (6) |
| SHUTE | British novelist (surname) who wrote No Highway (5) |
