| ALLFORLOVE | 1677 play by John Dryden subtitled The World Well Lost |
| THEROVER | 1677 play by Aphra Behn subtitled The Banished Cavalier (3,5) |
| AMPHITRYON | Play by John Dryden (10) |
| PHAEDRA | Wife of Theseus whose story is the subject of a 1677 play by Racine (7) |
| RULED | If I ___ The World, well-known song from the musical Pickwick |
| ACHITOPHEL | Absalom and ___, a poetic political satire by John Dryden |
| KILLIGREW | Anne ___, English poet and painter eulogised by John Dryden in a 1686 poem |
| AENEID | Classic work famously translated by John Dryden |
| NURSE | ' The priest continues what the ___ began' (John Dryden The Hind and the Panther (1687) |
| ROVER | The ?, stage play by Aphra Behn subtitled The Banish'd Cavaliers which premiered in 1677 |
| EER | "The world was a fool, ___ since it begun": John Dryden |
| BLOOM | Get on well lost in time of prosperity (5) |
| JOHNSON | Lexicographer whose Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets comprises short biographies of writers including John Milton, Samuel Butler and John Dryden (7) |
| PRETENCE | 'The rest to some faint meaning make ___' (John Dryden MacFlecknoe (1682) |
| ODE | "An ___, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell" (John Dryden poem) |
| FURY | "Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden |
| ISIS | 1677 opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully about Jupiter's love for the nymph Io and the jealousy of Juno |
| DRYDEN | John, English poet who authored the 1677 drama All for Love (6) |
| SLAIN | "Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were ___ / And unburied remain / Inglorious on the plain": John Dryden |
| TRADE | 'War is the ___ of kings' (John Dryden King Arthur (libretto, 1691) act 2, sc. 2) (5) |
