| BIERCE | Ambrose -, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6) |
| HORACE | Roman poet and satirist who authored the Ars Poetica (6) |
| AMBROSEBIERCE | Author of the Devil's Dictionary who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (7,6) |
| WILLIE | British cartoonist and satirist who co-founded the magazine Private Eye, Rushton (6) |
| ANDREWMARVELL | 17th century English poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions to a Painter (6,7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew, 17th-century poet and satirist who wrote Last Instructions To A Painter (7) |
| EECUMMINGS | US poet and painter who wrote The Enormous Room in 1922 and Tulips and Chimneys a year later (1,1,8) |
| LOUISEGLUCK | US poet and essayist awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 2020 (6,5) |
| SAMUEL | (and 3 Down) English poet and satirist emulates Blur somehow (6,6) |
| ACAPULCO | A port and resort in Mexico, in Guerrero state (8) |
| VANADIUM | Element discovered in Mexico in 1801 and first called 'brown lead' (8) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, US poet and philosopher who wrote the work Walden about simple living (7) |
| BALLARD | J.G., English author and satirist who wrote the wartime novel Empire of the Sun (7) |
| BIRD | John, actor and satirist who had a screen partnership with John Fortune (4) |
| DOROTHY | _____ Parker, U.S. poet and satirist born in 1893 noted for her wisecracks (7) |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet and satirist born in 1688 whose works include The Dunciad (9,4) |
| TROTSKY | Stalin's opponent, murdered in Mexico in 1940 (7) |
| LEONTROTSKY | Chief architect of the Russian Revolution, assassinated in Mexico in 1940 (4,7) |
| EZRAPOUND | US poet and critic (1885-1972) (4,5) |
| EZRA | -- Pound, 1885-1972, US poet and critic (4) |
