Possible Clues:

• Playwright managed to drink a dry one with drop of ginger
• Artist beginning to transmit work of giant dramatist
• Terence —, English playwright
• Giant rat created by dramatist
• Terence —, dramatist
• Playfellow lost in regatta out east
• Unusually tart, I constantly scold revolutionary dramatist
• Sir Terence --, English dramatist
• Playwright Terence
• 20th-century playwright