| SARDOU | Victorien, French dramatist who wrote the play La Tosca (6) |
| JEAN | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| COCTEAU | French author whose best-known works are the 1929 novel Les Enfants terribles and the 1934 play La Machine infernale (4,7) |
| VERDI | Giuseppe -; composer who based his opera La Traviata on Alexandre Dumas fils's novel and play La Dame aux Camelias (5) |
| RACINE | French dramatist who wrote Phedre, Andromaque, and Iphigenie (6) |
| COWARD | Noel -; dramatist who wrote the play Hay Fever and the song Mad Dogs and Englishmen (6) |
| FUGARD | South African dramatist who wrote the plays Blood Knot and The Road to Mecca and the novel Tsotsi (6 |
| AGATHA | _ Christie, detective novelist who wrote the play The Mouse Trap (6) |
| ONEILL | Eugene, U.S. dramatist who wrote the play Long Day's Journey into Night (6) |
| GOETHE | German poet and scholar who wrote the play Faust (6) |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| SCRIBE | Eugene, French dramatist who co-authored the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur (6) |
| GBSHAW | Who wrote the play Man and Superman? |
| HELLER | Joseph who wrote the play "We Bombed in New Haven" |
| FEDORA | 1882 play by French author Victorien Sardou that gives its name to a type of hat (6) |
| MOLIERE | Pen name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, the French dramatist who wrote Tartuffe, The Misanthrope, The School for Wives and The Bourgeois Gentleman (7) |
| ANOUILH | Jean _, French dramatist who wrote the 1944 play Antigone (7) |
| HARE | David -; dramatist who wrote the play Plenty and the screenplays to The Hours, The Reader and the four-part series Roadkill (4) |
| EUGENEONEILL | American dramatist who wrote the play The Iceman Cometh (6,6) |
| SEANOCASEY | Irish dramatist who wrote the play Juno And The Paycock (4,6) |
