| JACKHIBBERD | Which Australian playwright wrote Dimboola (1968) and A Stretch of the Imagination (1972)? (4,7) |
| BUZO | Which Australian playwright wrote The Front Room Boys (1969) |
| SPARTAN | ... and a stretch when a man's incarcerated, is tough (7) |
| SHAKESPEARE | Which English poet and playwright wrote Pericles and Cymbeline? (11) |
| GRAMPARSONS | American singer, songwriter and musician who joined The Byrds in 1968 and formed The Flying Burrito Brothers with fellow Byrd Chris Hillman in 1969 |
| NOSUCHTHING | A figment of the imagination? Anything but! (2,4,5) |
| IONESCO | An exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd, which French playwright wrote The Bald Soprano (1950) |
| IMAGINATION | Figment of the imagination |
| FABRICATION | Figment of the imagination |
| TIDEWAY | With a code of practice for rowing and paddling, a stretch of the Thames where the Boat Race traditionally takes place (7) |
| THEME | The central idea of the talk is "A Stretch of the Mediterranean" (5) |
| FLIGHTOFFANCY | Stretch of the imagination |
| IMAGINATIVEBUTUNWORKABLEIDEA | Stretch of the imagination |
| BYNO | ___ ___ stretch of the imagination |
| BYANY | __ stretch of the imagination |
| IBSEN | Which playwright wrote "What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'"? (5) |
| ISIS | Boris isn't covering up a stretch of the Thames (4) |
| FIGMENT | A piece of fruit sort of signified a product of the imagination |
| BOB | Identify the first name of this player who took 16 wickets on his Test debut at Lord's, which was in the Ashes series, in June 1972? (3) |
| NOWRA | Cosi and Radiance are works by the Australian playwright, Louis ... |
