| ANDREWMARVELL | 17th century English poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions to a Painter (6,7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew, 17th-century poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions To A Painter (7) |
| BALLARD | J.G., English author and satirist who wrote the wartime novel Empire of the Sun (7) |
| SAFIRE | Wordsmith who wrote "Last but not least, avoid cliches like the plague" |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet and satirist born in 1688 whose works include The Dunciad (9,4) |
| THEDAVINCIODE | Book that's a paean to a painter? |
| BIERCE | Ambrose ?, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6) |
| HORACE | Roman poet and satirist who authored the Ars Poetica (6) |
| DAVENANT | Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey |
| QUARLES | Francis ___, 17th-century English poet who wrote 'A Feast for Worms' |
| ARNOLD | Matthew ---, 19th-Century English poet and essayist who wrote the lyric poem Dover Beach (6) |
| DRYDEN | 17th century English poet and dramatist (6) |
| POPE | English poet and satirist, d. 1744 (4) |
| GERALDMANLEYHOPKINS | 19th-century English poet and Jesuit priest who experimented with sprung rhythm (6,6,7) |
| LOVELACE | Richard ?, 17th-century English poet whose works include To Althea, from Prison |
| LUCIAN | 2nd century AD satirist who wrote Dialogues of the Dead (6) |
| BIRD | John, actor and satirist who had a screen partnership with John Fortune (4) |
| MILTON | John _, 17th-century English poet famed for writing Paradise Lost (6) |
| TIARA | It is up to a painter to provide jewellery (5) |
| SUMATRA | Is this island a must, in its own way, to a painter? (7) |
