| HAVEL | Prague-born dramatist who became the last president of Czechoslovakia (5) |
| JOHNDRYDEN | English poet, critic and dramatist who became the first official Poet Laureate in 1668 (4,6) |
| UDALL | Nicholas --, 1504-56, dramatist who became headmaster of Eton (5) |
| ELLIS | In 1955 she became the last woman to be executed in Britain, convicted murderess Ruth ... |
| IDOLWINNER | Trent Harmon became the last one on FOX in 2016: 2 wds. |
| SENECA | Roman philosopher and dramatist who became Nero's tutor in AD 49 (6) |
| SAMURAI | Tom Cruise became The Last ------- (7) |
| VACLAVHAVEL | Czech playwright, essayist, dissident and politician who was the last President of Czechoslovakia |
| AZANA | Manuel _, last president of the Republic of Spain (1936- 1939) (5) |
| BEARD | Benjamin Harrison was the last president to feature one |
| KAFKA | Prague-born author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. (5) |
| BENES | A president of Czechoslovakia |
| THIEU | Last president of South Vietnam |
| TOMAS | ___ Masaryk, first president of Czechoslovakia |
| BUCHANAN | He said, "I am the last president of the United States" |
| RILKE | Rainer Maria ___, Prague-born poet whose works include the Sonnets to Orpheus (5) |
| RENE | Coty, the last President of France's Fourth Republic |
| ALBERT | Lebrun, the last president of France's Third Republic |
| FRIML | Rudolf ___, Prague-born composer whose best-known works are Rose-Marie and The Vagabond King |
| YEATS | Dublin-born dramatist |