| WAITING | ___ for Godot, Beckett play (7) |
| ENDGAME | Beckett play with characters Hamm and Clov (7) |
| BECKETT | Samuel _, Irish author and Nobel laureate (1969) noted for the 1953 play En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) (7) |
| GODOT | Waiting for -; Samuel Beckett play (5) |
| WAITINGFORGODOT | 1953 Samuel Beckett play (7,3,5) |
| FOR | "Waiting ___ Godot" (Samuel Beckett play with a 2025 Broadway revival starring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter) |
| GOD | Beckett-play title character |
| BREATH | Short Samuel Beckett play (6) |
| DUMBWAITER | Non-speaking character in Beckett play offering a lift? (10) |
| EXITTRAMPS | Stage direction in a Beckett play? |
| NOTI | Samuel Beckett play |
| NOTT | Samuel Beckett play |
| KRAPPSLASTTAPE | Beckett play (6,4,4) |
| HAPPY | Samuel Beckett play, ... Days |
| HAPPYDAYS | Beckett play - '50s/'60s-set sitcom (5,4) |
| HARDACTTOFOLLOW | Almost incomparable or almost incomprehensible, like any part of a Beckett play, some might say (4,3,2,6) |
| SAMUELBECKETT | Irish writer, dramatist and poet best known for his play, Waiting For Godot (6,7) |
| ESTRAGON | French name for the herb tarragon; character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot (8) |
| RAPIDLY | "Vladimir: That passed the time. Estragon: It would have passed in any case. Vladimir: Yes, but not so _." (Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot) (7) |
| VLADIMIR | A Russian city; or, one of the characters in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot (8) |
