| STOPPARD | Tom -; Czech-born British dramatist who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (8) |
| GILBERT | W.S., British dramatist who collaborated with Arthur Sullivan (7) |
| TOMSTOPPARD | British playwright whose works include Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (1966) |
| ACT | One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| ENGLAND | In the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966),, what did Stoppard call "a conspiracy of cartographers"? (7) |
| PLAY | "Hamlet" or "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| ROSENCRANTZ | '-- and Guildenstern are Dead', play by Tom Stoppard (11) |
| RATTIGAN | Terence - - -, 20th Century British dramatist whose plays included The Winslow Boy and The Browning Version (8) |
| GARB | At first, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern rejected black clothes (4) |
| PERVADED | For each five that are dead wrong it is extended throughout (8) |
| DANES | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, for two |
| WIDOWERS | Men whose wives are dead (8) |
| TRAVERSE | British dramatist Ben pursued by earl gets cross (8) |
| BENNETT | Alan, British dramatist and screenwriter born in Leeds who wrote the play The History Boys (7) |
| MAXWELL | Czech-born British pu bl is her,d. at sea 1991 (7) |
| EDWARD | And 7 British dramatist and theatre director whose plays include 1965's Saved (6,4) |
| BIER | Holds up one of those who are dead to the world with the drink say (4) |
| ADDENDA | Things that were attached are dead and gone astray |
| IACES | You lie down, and so are dead, vide eg Ovid, Met. 1.720, Arge, ____ |
| LENDANEAR | Listen behind Guildenstern and Hamlet in Lear? (4,2,3) |
