| PLOWMAN | Allegorical narrative poem by English poet William Langland (c. 1370) that makes the first known literary reference to Robin Hood (7) |
| PIERS | Allegorical narrative poem by English poet William Langland (c. 1370) that makes the first known literary reference to Robin Hood (5) |
| DEADASADOORNAIL | Idiomatic phrase about extinction, used in Piers Plowman (c. 1370) |
| SEAFEVEF | 1902 poem by English poet John Masefield featuring the line 'And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by' (3-5) |
| INVICTUS | Poem by English poet WE Henley, published in 1888 and noted for its evocation of stoicism (8) |
| TYGER | 1794: 'In the forests of the night' creature in English poet William Blake's famous poem |
| EXPLOSIVE | Gunpowder, in use by the 9th century in China and the 13th century in the West, was the first known |
| PIERSPLOWMAN | 14th century allegoric poem written by William Langland (5,7) |
| BLEAKMIDWINTER | In The ____ , carol based on a poem by English Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (5,9) |
| FLEA | The -, metaphysical poem by English scholar John Donne, written sometime in the 1590s (4) |
| LANSE | This site, on the northern tip of Newfoundland island, is one of the first known European settlements in the New World. Norse explorers established a large base there about the year 1000. The site was |
| HARVEY | William ___, the first known physician to recognise and demonstrate the circulation of blood in the human body (6) |
| JOHNLYDGATE | English poet born circa 1370 whose works include The Floure of Curtesye |
| SOLDIER | The ___ , poem by English war poet Rupert Brooke (7) |
| OPENER | The first in a series of events or games; a player who starts the betting or makes the first bid; or, a utensil for de-lidding a bottle or tin (6) |
| AGNES | The Eve Of St ___, 1819 poem by English Romantic John Keats (5) |
| GRECIAN | Ode on a ____ Urn, poem by English Romantic poet John Keats published in 1820 (7) |
| LYCIDAS | Poem by English writer John Milton about a shepherd first published in 1638 (7) |
| ORELLANA | Francisco de ?, 16th-century Spanish explorer who completed the first known navigation of the entire length of the Amazon River |
| PARADISELOST | Epic poem in blank verse by English poet John Milton, first published in ten books in 1667 (8,4) |
