| STOPPARD | Tom, Czech-born British playwright whose play Leopoldstadt premiered in 2020 (8) |
| TOMSTOPPARD | Czech-born British playwright whose play Leopoldstadt traces a Jewish family history in Vienna (3,8) |
| ACTS | There are five in the play "Leopoldstadt" |
| IBSEN | Henrik, Norwegian playwright whose plays include A Doll's House and Ghosts (5) |
| DRYDEN | John _, English poet and playwright whose plays include All For love (6) |
| SYNGE | Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (5) |
| JMBARRIE | Scottish writer whose play Quality Street inspired the confectionery brand |
| RATTIGAN | British playwright who penned The Browning Version |
| PINTER | Harold ___, British playwright whose work is being celebrated in a season of performances at the West End theatre named after him (6) |
| HAROLDPINTER | British playwright whose works included The Birthday Party (6,6) |
| POLIAKOFF | Stephen _, British playwright whose works include 1976's Strawberry Fields (9) |
| ORTON | British playwright whose works included 1969's What The Butler Saw, Joe _ (5) |
| CARYL | --- Churchill, British playwright whose works include Top Girls and A Number (5) |
| MAXWELL | Czech-born British pu bl is her,d. at sea 1991 (7) |
| MOLNAR | Ferenc ___, Hungarian-born writer whose play Liliom was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel |
| BROOKSANDDUNN | Duo whose "Play Something Country" hit #1 on the Billboard Country Songs Chart in 2005: 3 wds. |
| WILDE | Irish dramatist whose play Lady Windermere's Fan formed the basis of the film set in Amalfi A Good Woman (5) |
| PLAY | Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt," for one |
| TOM | "Leopoldstadt" playwright Stoppard |
| ALBEE | Dramatist whose play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was adapted to screen (5) |
