| STOPPARD | Tom -; dramatist who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and co-wrote the screenplay to the film Shakespeare in Love (8) |
| TOMSTOPPARD | Czech-born British playwright whose works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Travesties |
| BOLT | Robert -; dramatist who adapted his play A Man for All Seasons to film and co-wrote the screenplay to David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| BENNETT | Actor, author and playwright who wrote the screenplay to the film based on his life The Lady in the Van (7) |
| BOAL | Mark who wrote the screenplay to "The Hurt Locker" (and won an Oscar for it) |
| CLARKE | Co-writer with Stanley Kubrick of the screenplay to the 1968 sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey (6) |
| STOPTOPPARD | Tom who wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead * (11) |
| ENGLAND | In the play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966),, what did Stoppard call "a conspiracy of cartographers"? (7) |
| ACT | One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| PLAY | "Hamlet" or "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| SHERRIFF | R. C. -; dramatist noted for his play Journey's End who also wrote the screenplays to The Invisible Man and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (8) |
| LIONELRICHIE | Singer who rose to fame in the Commodores and co-wrote the American charity record We Are the World |
| TURTURRO | John _, actor who co-wrote the screenplay for, and starred in, the 2019 miniseries The Name Of The Rose (8) |
| ROSENCRANTZ | '-- and Guildenstern are Dead', play by Tom Stoppard (11) |
| GODARD | Jean-Luc -; French film director who wrote the screenplays to Breathless and Weekend (6) |
| THEFOG | 1980 horror film directed by John Carpenter, who also co-wrote the screenplay and composed the music |
| BYRNE | David, musician who directed and co-wrote the 1986 film True Stories (5) |
| THOMPSON | Actress who developed the screenplay to Sense and Sensibility over five years, for which she was awarded an Oscar (8) |
| LINDSAY | Sally ___, actress who stars in and co-wrote the Madame Blanc Mysteries (7) |
