| NOYES | Alfred ____, English poet, best known for his ballad The Highwayman |
| 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) |
| READINGGAOL | Prison where Oscar Wilde was incarcerated, the subject of his Ballad |
| KIDD | He looted "three ships from Spain" in his "Ballad" |
| BINYON | English poet best known for his composition For the Fallen containing the line "We will remember the |
| 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) |
| SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE | English poet best known for The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan |
| EDMUND | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| NEWBOLT | English poet best known for the line: "Play up! play up! and play the game!" (7) |
| THOMASGRAY | English poet best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| 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) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ___, English poet - he wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (8) |
| 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) |
| CHEAPTRICK | Rock band known for the power ballad "The Flame" |
| EDWARDLEAR | English artist, illustrator, author, and poet best known for The Owl and the Pussycat |
| VIRGIL | The Roman poet best known for his unfinished epic, the Aeneid (6) |
| SOUTHEY | Robert, British poet laureate whose works include the ballad The Inchcape Rock (7) |
