| NOYES | Alfred ___, English poet best known for his ballads The Highwayman and The Barrel-Organ |
| ADAMS | Bryan, Canadian singer-songwriter known for his ballads 'Straight from the Heart' and 'Heaven' (5) |
| HOUSMAN | A(lfred) E(dward) ___, English poet best remembered for the 1896 collection A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| BAB | W S Gilbert's childhood nickname which he used in the title of his ballads, a collection of light verse |
| HURDYGURDY | The name of this instrument used in French folk music is also applied to the barrel organ (5,5) |
| BINYON | English poet best known for his composition For the Fallen containing the line "We will remember the |
| SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE | English poet best known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan |
| NEWBOLT | English poet best known for the line: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" (7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund - - -, 16th Century English poet best known for his epic work The Faerie Queene (7) |
| CLARE | John ___ (1793 - 1864), English poet, best known for his celebrations of the countryside (5) |
| EDMUND | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| THOMASGRAY | English poet best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ___, English poet - he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (8) |
| AEHOUSMAN | English poet best known for A Shropshire Lad (1,1,7) |
| ROBERTGERRICK | English poet best known for Hesperides, which includes a poem that begins "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" (6,7) |
| FIELDING | Sometimes writing under the pen name Captain Hercules Vinegar, the author of Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones whose drama The Grub-Street Opera features the ballad The Roast Beef of Old England (8) |
| ALFREDNOYES | English poet. short-story writer and playwright whose best-known poem is The Highwayman (6.5) |
| ABBESS | A black horse for a highwayman - and his sister? (6) |
| CHEAPTRICK | Rock band known for the power ballad "The Flame" |
| COCKBURN | Alison ?, 18th-century Scottish poet who authored a version of ballad The Flowers of the Forest (8) |
