| NEILSIMON | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play Lost in Yonkers (4,5) |
| MARCCONNELLY | US winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play The Green Pastures (4,8) |
| INGE | William, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the play Picnic (4) |
| PROPERTY | Decent play lost nothing in quality |
| WRIGHT | Doug, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the stage play I Am My Own Wife (6) |
| AMYLOWELL | Posthumous winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926 for What's O'Clock |
| ANNA | ___ in the Tropics (2003 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, making author Nilo Cruz the first Latino thus honored) |
| ISHERWOOD | Christopher who wrote "The Berlin Stories," inspiration for the play "I Am a Camera" |
| MELODRAMA | The role madam created for the play (9) |
| AUDITIONS | Tries out for a role, ... for the play |
| RAPPRAISE | *"Kendrick Lamar's album 'Damn.' is awesome and worthy of the Pulitzer," e.g.? |
| GRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set in the Great Depression, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (6,2,5) |
| THEAGEOFINNOCENCE | 1920 novel which made Edith Wharton the first female winner of the Pulitzer prize for literature |
| LOWELL | Robert --, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974 (6) |
| ANNE | Jayne ___ Phillips, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for "Night Watch" (May, 2024) |
| PROPAGATE | Spread it - rugby player absent for the play (9) |
| LOST | ___ in Yonkers 1990 play by Neil Simon for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama |
| IRA | Winner of 1932 Pulitzer Prize for drama for Of Thee I Sing, the first musical to win, lyricist ... G |
| LESS | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction |
| KENDRICKLAMAR | 2018 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for music |
