| EDITHSITWELL | 20th Century British poet and critic noted for her formidable personality and Elizabethan dress (5,7) |
| SITWELL | Edith, English poet and critic noted for the 1922 collection Facade (7) |
| DOROTHYPARKER | US writer and critic noted for her sharp wit (7,6) |
| PLAINCLOTHES | Civilian dress (5,7) |
| AUDEN | 20th-century British poet (surname) (5) |
| DYLAN | (and 11 across) 20th-century British poet who died at the age of 39 (5) |
| CODPIECE | Appendage worn in front of the hose in Elizabethan dress (8) |
| REN | ___ Faire (festival with Elizabethan dress, informally) |
| GOSSE | Edmund, English literary historian and critic noted for translating Henrik Ibsen's plays (5) |
| FORDMADOXFORD | English writer and critic noted for his novel The Good Soldier published in 1915 (4,5,4) |
| EMILEZOLA | French novelist and critic noted for Germinal (5,4) |
| BERTRANDRUSSELL | British philosopher and social critic, noted for campaigning against nuclear weapons (8,7) |
| EMPSON | William ___, British poet and critic who authored 1930's Seven Types of Ambiguity (6) |
| DEUTSCH | Otto Erich ___, Austrian music historian and art critic, noted for his catalogue of Schubert's works |
| STEINER | George, French-born U.S. literary critic noted for his work on language and the Holocaust (7) |
| ROWSE | A.L., British historian noted for his work on Shakespeare and Elizabethan England (5) |
| HOOD | Thomas ___, 19th-century British poet/humourist; or Samuel ___, 18th/19th-century British admiral (4) |
| EGON | **** Ronay, Hungarian food critic noted for his guides to restaurants (4) |
| ROBERTGRAVES | British poet and author, known for works such 'I, Claudius' and 'Goodbye to all that', who lived in DeA-a, Mallorca from 1929 to 1936 and 1946 until his death in 1985 (6,6) |
| EDMUNDWILSON | US critic, noted especially for Axel's Castle, a study of the symbolist movement |
