| ROBERTSOUTHEY | 10th Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1813-43) (6,7) |
| SOUTHEY | Robert ___, Poet Laureate 1813-43 (7) |
| ANDREWMOTION | The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom 1999-2009 (6,6) |
| CECIL | The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1972, _ Day-Lewis (5) |
| ARMITAGE | The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Simon _ (8) |
| ADA | Limon who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States |
| RITAJOE | Member of the Order of Canada known as 'The Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq People': 2 wds. |
| DUFFY | The Poet Laureate of the UK since May 2009 (5,3,5) |
| CAROLANN | The Poet Laureate of the UK since May 2009 (5,3,5) |
| TENNYSON | Poet Laureate of the Victorian era, Alfred, Lord _ (8) |
| POET | _ Laureate of the United States |
| COPP | Dr. Douglas Harold ___, b.1915 d.1998 (Laureate of The Canadian Medical Hall of Fame who discovered the hormone 'Calcitonin') |
| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (3,6) |
| PATTI | Smith known as the Poet Laureate of Punk |
| MARIN | Conductor Alsop, Music Director Laureate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra |
| TATE | Nahum, poet laureate of England from 1692-1715; writer of such hymns as While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (4) |
| MARKSTRAND | U.S. poet laureate of 1990 |
| AUDRE | Lorde who was once poet laureate of New York |
| FROST | First Poet Laureate of Vermont |
| CHARLESBUKOWSKI | Poet dubbed a 'laureate of American lowlife' by Time magazine in 1986 |
