| THELISTENERS | 1912 volume of poetry by Walter de la Mare (3,9) |
| LISTENERS | The ?, 1912 volume of verse by Walter de la Mare (9) |
| COME | "___ Hither" (Walter de la Mare poetry anthology) |
| TRAVELLER | "Is here anybody there, said the ... / knocking on the moonlit door" (Walter de la Mare) |
| AMARANTH | Poetic imaginary flower that never fades, as in Walter de la Mare's All That's Past (8) |
| NIGELROBERTS | New Zealand-born, and a leading member of the Balmain Poetry Group, whose first volume of poetry is In Casablanca for the Waters (1977)? (5,7) |
| SHORTCUMMINGS | Title of an abridged volume of poetry by E. E.? |
| FLYLEAVES | Volume of poetry by Charles Stuart Calverley, its title is taken from the term for the blank pages in the end of a book (3,6) |
| OVID | 'Tales From --', volume of poetry by Ted Hughes which won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1997 (4) |
| LUDLOW | Town in Shropshire, site of a castle founded by Walter de Lacy (6) |
| PEN | 1980 volume of poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah (3,6) |
| THEWHITSUN | 1964 volume of poetry by Phillip Larkin |
| WEDDINGS | 1964 volume of poetry by Phillip Larkin (3,7,8) |
| THEWHITSUNWEDDINGS | 1964 volume of poetry by Phillip Larkin |
| THETOWER | 1928 volume of poetry by W B Yeats (3,5) |
| RHYMING | "Compiler, thy gun repair", as written by De la Mare? (7,7) |
| ESMERALDA | De la Mare's funny lady of fiction (9) |
| LESFLEURSDUMAL | Volume of poetry by Baudelaire -on publication in 1857, six poems were censored due to their immorality (3,6,2,3) |
| MARE | Walter de la ___, English poet (4) |
| APOST | "...and as still as ___": de la Mare |
