| LYLY | Prose stylist and playwright noted for his didactic romance written in the elaborate style that became known as "Euphuism" (4) |
| TACITUS | Roman historian and orator famous as a prose stylist (7) |
| NOEL | _ _ _ _ Coward, knighted English actor and playwright noted for his flamboyance and wit (4) |
| MARBER | Patrick ******, comedian and playwright noted for his 1997 play 'Closer' (6) |
| OSBORNE | John -; playwright noted for "kitchen-sink" realism in Look Back in Anger and The Entertainer (7) |
| MOLIERE | 17th-century French playwright noted for his play The Miser (7) |
| TRAVERS | Ben ____, playwright noted for his farces |
| SHAW | Irish playwright noted for Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan (4) |
| LABYRINTH | Word for a maze in a landscaped garden or for something inextricably complicated that derives from the elaborate structure built by craftsman Daedalus to house the Minotaur (9) |
| ALAIN | Parachutist with the French Marines in Indochina at the time of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, he beca |
| BERLE | Comedian who married Joyce Mathews in 1941, divorced her in 1947 and married her again in 1949 "beca |
| SPLITENDS | Concern for a stylist, and what's found in the circled letters |
| CAKE | A sweet baked food, such as the elaborate fruit-laden "twelfth" variety cooked for the feast of the Epiphany, customarily including a dried bean and a pea (4) |
| ANTONCHEKHOV | Russian playwright noted for The Seagull (5,7) |
| BRECHT | Bertolt, German playwright noted for The Threepenny Opera (6) |
| ANNA | - Kendrick, actress who starred as Beca Mitchell in the Pitch Perfect film series (4) |
| KENDRICK | Anna, U.S. actress who played Beca Mitchell in the Pitch Perfect musical comedy series (8) |
| BRAD | First name of Mr Goreski, the celebrity stylist and judgeon Canadas Drag Race (4) |
| TENNESSEE | ___ Williams, U.S. playwright noted for A Streetcar Named Desire (9) |
| ORTON | Joe , English playwright noted for Loot (5) |
