1) GBS admirer 2) Author 3) Dramatist 4) Having an ironic comedic tone 5) Of the author of candida 6) Playwright 7) Unicode block 8) Writer Found on https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/shavian
[Unicode block] Shavian is a Unicode block containing characters invented to write English phonetically, funded by the will of George Bernard Shaw. The Shavian block was derived from an earlier private use encoding in the ConScript Unicode Registry, like the Deseret and Phaistos Disc encodings. ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_(Unicode_block)