| HENRYDAVIDTHOREAU | American essayist and poet known as 'the hermit of Walden' |
| PETERNOONE | Head Hermit of the 60s |
| RENEE | ___ Vivien, British poet known as the Muse of the Violets |
| CHAUCER | Poet known as the father of English literature, d. 1400 (7) |
| RIMBAUD | Poet known as the father of French Symbolism |
| LASCELLESABERCROMBIE | Poet known as the Georgian Laureate, father of a 20th-century town planner |
| JAMESHOGG | Scottish poet, known as the Ettrick Shepherd (5,4) |
| HOGG | Scottish poet known as the Ettrick Shepherd whose aptitude for writing was discovered by Sir Walter Scott (4) |
| OMAR | Poet known as "the Tentmaker" |
| TRUMP | General name for one of the Major Arcana cards in tarot, such as the Fool, the Hermit or the Devil (5) |
| TAROT | Holder of The Hermit, The Devil and The Magician |
| EMERSON | Ralph Waldo ___, American lecturer, essayist and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century |
| RWE | Monogram of the American essayist (b.1803 - d.1882) of Nature |
| THOREAUVIAN | Reminiscent of the author of "Walden" |
| TAROTCARDS | The Fool, The Hermit and The Hanged Man, for three |
| TAROTS | The Chariot, the Hermit and the Fool, e.g. |
| RALPH | _ Waldo Emerson, 19th-century American essayist, poet and transcendentalist (5) |
| ADDISON | Essayist and poet famous for his tragedy Cato and poem The Campaign (6,7) |
| JOSEPH | Essayist and poet famous for his tragedy Cato and poem The Campaign (6,7) |
| THOREAU | Author of "Walden, or Life in the Woods" |
