| SARDOU | Victorien -, French author of plays Fedora and La Tosca (6) |
| ERTES | The sculptures "Rigoletto" and "La Tosca," e.g. |
| FEDORA | 1882 play by French author Victorien Sardou that gives its name to a type of hat (6) |
| UGOBETTI | Italian author of plays including Corruzione al Palazzo di Giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, 1949) and La fuggitiva (The Fugitive, 1953) (3,5) |
| MOLIERE | Sobriquet of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, author of plays including Tartuffe, Dom Juan and The Misanthrope (7) |
| BUCHNER | Georg ?, author of plays Danton's Death and Woyzeck (7) |
| DARIOFO | Italian author of plays including Accidental Death of an Anarchist 1970 (5,2) |
| JOEORTON | English author of plays including Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) and Loot (1965) (3,5) |
| BAGNOLD | Writer of plays and novels and blog, originally |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| SHERIDAN | Richard Brinsley ___, Anglo-Irish author of plays including The Rivals (1775) and The School for Scandal (1777) (8) |
| WILD | Angry author of plays on the radio |
| SHAW | Wood, writer of plays and critical commentaries |
| INDIANA | ____ Jones, fictional archaeology professor clad in a fedora and carrying a bullwhip (7) |
| SCREENWRITER | Author of plays (12) |
| DRAMATIST | Author of plays |
| BECKETT | Samuel, author of play Waiting for Godot (7) |
| TOLSTOY | Author of play on Westward channel |
| PAINTER | Writer of plays about a person like Vermeer (7) |
| RATTIGAN | Terence, author of play The Winslow Boy (8) |
