| KUSHNER | Tony, U.S. dramatist who wrote the two-part play Angels in America (7) |
| ACTS | There are eight in the two-part play "Angels in America" |
| SYLVIAPLATH | US-born poetess who wrote the two volumes of verse The Colossus and Ariel, and the novel The Bell Jar (6,5) |
| OGDENNASH | Humorous American poet who wrote the two-line poem 'The Cow' (5,4) |
| ONEILL | Eugene, U.S. dramatist who wrote the play Long Day's Journey into Night (6) |
| CONNELLY | Marc, U.S. dramatist who wrote 1930 play The Green Pastures (8) |
| GASLIGHT | 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton (who spent his final years on the North Norfolk coast) that was turned into the Broadway play Angel Street and a 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman (3,5) |
| WICKED | Musical that gets the two-part movie treatment in 2024 and 2025 |
| DOUBLEBOOK | Reserve twice in error, as an airline seat ... or a hint to the two-part answers to starred clues |
| BACK | Play angel |
| OLEANNA | Play by U.S. dramatist David Mamet about a university professor and female student (7) |
| THELEAD | The star part (play, film) (3,4) |
| MANDATE | The two parts needed to make friend give authorisation (7) |
| ROYCOHN | McCarthyist lawyer played by Al Pacino in "Angels in America" |
| OBERSEE | The larger of the two parts of Lake Constance |
| ANGELS | 1991 two-part play by Tony Kushner, _ In America (6) |
| CHILD | Two-part play co-authored by British novelist JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed ___ (5) |
| THEDANCEOF | Two-part play written in 1900 by August Strindberg whose central characters are husband and wife Edgar and Alice (3,5,2,5) |
| DEATH | Two-part play written in 1900 by August Strindberg whose central characters are husband and wife Edgar and Alice (3,5,2,5) |
| ROOMANDBOARD | Part of an au pair's compensation, or what can respectively follow the two parts of the answers to the starred clues |
