| TEDHUGHES | A poet, oddly trendy, reported colours |
| HUE | Fellow reported colour |
| NOTED | Recorded a short number that's oddly trendy |
| ULULATED | A Scottish singer, laid back, oddly trendy, wailed (8) |
| ECTOPLASM | Ghostly stuff calms poet, oddly (9) |
| ROPEDIN | Sculptor framing poet oddly gets volunteered (5,2) |
| CALLIOPE | Name minor poet oddly dismissed? (8) |
| DRYDEN | Poet's oddly dirty study (6) |
| BLIGHTED | Injured captain who lost control, oddly trendy |
| ERUPTED | Holy uprising, oddly trendy, broke out (7) |
| DOCUMENTED | Mock retired university fellows, oddly trendy it's recorded (10) |
| ERECTED | Built before beginning of century, and oddly trendy (7) |
| DELIMITED | Defined boundaries for food store on motorway - oddly trendy! (9) |
| OPERATED | Musical work, oddly trendy, worked in the theatre? (8) |
| BAUDELAIRE | French poet oddly beat-up English one as mother goes for iodine |
| COINOPERATED | Brecht/Weill's Threepenny piece oddly trendy as something to put cash into? |
| WYATTEARP | Participant in a gunfight - the last - between a poet and a sculptor (5,4) |
| ONOMATOPOEIA | Io - a moon a poet struggled with, needing a term that sounds right |
| HEINE | Poet who wrote "Don't send a poet to London" |
| ABOARD | A poet penning nothing on a ship (6) |
