| OCASEY | Sean ---, Dublin dramatist whose works included Juno And The Paycock, which premiered at the Abbey Theatre in 1924 (6) |
| MONTAGEOFHECK | Kurt Cobain: ___ a documentary chronicling the singer's life which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival: 3 wds. |
| THEGONDOLIERS | Gilbert & Sullivan opera which premiered at the Savoy Theatre in 1889 (3,10) |
| MARLOWE | Christopher _, Elizabethan dramatist whose works included Tamburlaine The Great and The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus (7) |
| ELIOT | T S _, Us-born British poet and dramatist whose works included The Waste Land (1922) |
| KREMLIN | "The Wizard of the ___" (Alicia Vikander/Paul Dano drama that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday) |
| FINALCURTAIN | It's staged managed at the end of Juno and the Paycock, for one (5,7) |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish dramatist who wrote the play Juno And The Paycock (4,6) |
| ALEXANDRE | --- Dumas, French novelist and dramatist whose works included The Three Musketeers (9) |
| ONEILL | Eugene ---, US dramatist whose works included the play The Iceman Cometh (1'5) |
| STARS | "What is the ...? What is the ...? " (Juno and the Paycock) (5) |
| JACOB | Elordi whose new movie "Priscilla" premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last week |
| HENRYFIELDING | 18th Century English novelist and dramatist whose works included Tom Jones (5,8) |
| RESERVOIRDOGS | Quentin Tarantino's debut film, which premiered at Sundance in 1992 to a mixed reception but gave the auteur wide exposure |
| ROLEPLAY | Reading heard at fiesta and at the abbey can be therapeutic for the actors (4-4) |
| INPLAY | Where one finds Juno and the Paycock's captain who hasn't left the pitch (2,4) |
| BURIED | Film starring Ryan Reynolds that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010 (6) |
| RITUALS | Opera in five parts by American avant-garde composer John Zorn premiered at the Bayreuth Opera Festival in 1988 |
| ULISSE | Luigi Dallapiccola's last opera, premiered at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin in 1968 |
| ELIJAH | Oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn premiered at the Birmingham Festival in 1846 (6) |