| PETRARCH | Italian poet famous for love lyrics (8) |
| WARMTH | "And too many moonlight kisses / Seem to cool in the ____ of the sun" (When I Fall in Love lyrics) |
| AGO | So long ___, you were my love (lyrics from Kool & the Gang's Too Hot) |
| DANTE | An Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy (5) |
| ARIOSTO | Ludovico, Italian poet famous for his epic Orlando Furioso (7) |
| MEREDITH | Novelist and poet famous for Rhoda Fleming, The Egoist, etc. (6,8) |
| DRYDEN | British poet famous for his odes on "St. Cecilia's Day", Heroic Stanzas, All For Love, etc. (4,6) |
| JOHN | British poet famous for his odes on "St. Cecilia's Day", Heroic Stanzas, All For Love, etc. (4,6) |
| GEORGE | Novelist and poet famous for Rhoda Fleming, The Egoist, etc. (6,8) |
| LAFONTAINE | Jean de --- ---, 17th-Century French poet, famous for his Fables (2,8) |
| JOHNMILTON | English poet famous for his epic Paradise Lost (4,6) |
| CLARE | John ---, 19th Century English poet famous for his rural subjects (5) |
| KEATS | Surname of the poet famous for his "Odes" (5) |
| HORACE | Roman poet famous for his Satires, Odes, Epodes, and Epistles (6) |
| GRAY | Thomas _, poet famous for Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| PINDAR | Greek lyric poet famous for his Olympian Odes, etc. (6) |
| RILKE | Austro-German poet famous for Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus (5) |
| WALTWHITMAN | 19th-century American poet famous for the verse collection Leaves Of Grass (1855) |
| RUDYARD | Author and poet famous for Stalky and Co., The Light That Failed, etc. (7,7) |
| KIPLING | Author and poet famous for Stalky and Co., The Light That Failed, etc. (7,7) |
