| OLIVERGOLDSMITH | Writer of the play, She Stoops to Conquer (6,9) |
| GOLDSMITH | Oliver, author of the play She Stoops to Conquer (9) |
| LUMPKIN | Tony, character in the play She Stoops to Conquer (7) |
| PEREGRINEFALCON | 'She Stoops to Conquer'? (9,6) |
| OLIVER | - Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer) |
| BIRDOFPREY | 'She Stoops to Conquer' a hobby perhaps? (4,2,4) |
| ALAINRENELESAGE | 18th-century French writer of the play Turcaret and the picaresque novel Gil Blas |
| CONQUER | She Stoops to ___, play by Oliver Goldsmith (7) |
| SHE | ___ Stoops to Conquer, comic play by Oliver Goldsmith (3) |
| GORKY | Russian writer of the play The Lower Depths (5) |
| BEHAN | Brendan _, Irish writer of the play The Quare Fellow (1954) |
| SHERIDAN | Writer of the plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal |
| EAGLE | It stoops to conquer (5) |
| EUGENEONEILL | Writer of the play Anna Christie, adapted into the 1930 film starring Greta Garbo (6,1'5) |
| BRECHT | Writer of the play Mother Courage and Her Children |
| IRALEVIN | Writer of the play Deathtrap (3,5) |
| ANTONCHEKHOV | Russian writer of the play Uncle Vanya: 2 wds. |
| RATTIGAN | Terence ___, writer of the play Separate Tables (8) |
| IBSEN | Writer of the play Hedda Gabler (5) |
| ALANAYCKBOURN | Writer of the play Bedroom Farce (4,9) |
