| ALANBENNETT | Playwright who created Talking Heads (4,7) |
| BARRIE | JM -, Scottish novelist and playwright who created Peter Pan (6) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish playwright who created the character Algernon Moncrieff (5,5) |
| ENSLER | Eve ___, playwright who created the activist movement V-Day |
| IBSEN | Henrik, playwright who created the character Hedda Gabler (5) |
| WILDE | Novelist and playwright who created Dorian Gray and Lady Windermere (5) |
| ROSENTHAL | Jack, English playwright who created the TV drama series London's Burning (9) |
| BARKER | Clive, English author and playwright who created the character Candyman (6) |
| NEIL | ____ LaBute, playwright who created the fantasy horror TV series Van Helsing (4) |
| AARON | ***** Sorkin, playwright who created TV political drama 'The West Wing' (5) |
| THEVASELINE | Talking Heads got "Sand" in theirs |
| INALIFETIME | "Once ___" (Talking Heads tune) |
| FEAROFMUSIC | There are tunes here by Talking Heads, I'm afraid (4-2-5) |
| TINA | Weymouth who played bass for Talking Heads |
| BENNETT | Actor and playwright of Talking Heads (7) |
| ENO | Brian who produced or co-produced several Talking Heads albums |
| BYRNE | David who sang with the Talking Heads |
| DAVIDBYRNE | Scottish-born Talking Heads musician who received the Carnegie Great Immigrants award in 2020: 2 wds. |
| WALTER | Harriet - - -, actress who played Muriel Carpenter in Soldiering On, part of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads 3 (6) |
| AJOB | "Found ___" (Talking Heads song) |
