| SIMONIDES | Ancient Greek poet noted for his songs of lamentation and odes to victory (9) |
| ORPHEAN | Relating to a Greek poet noted for melodious playing on his lyre (7) |
| THRENODES | Songs of lamentation for the dead (9) |
| LAMB | The ---, a poem by William Blake published in his Songs Of Innocence (4) |
| KEATS | Author of Endymion and Ode to a Nightingale |
| AILING | With this you get lamentation and 13 (6) |
| RICHARDMARK | Singer noted for his songs 'Hazard" and "Should've Known Better' (7,4) |
| MOMMY | Busted!: Back in 1952, a boy named Jimmy Boyd hit number one on the chart with his song of seeing this woman kissing Santa Claus |
| TOMJONES | Welsh singer noted for his songs "It's Not Unusual" and "Delilah" (3,5) |
| ROCKETMAN | Forthcoming Elton John biopic whose name is taken from one of his songs |
| MONTERREY | "I met her in ____, in old Mexico" (Frank Sinatra, on his Songs for Swingin' Lovers album) |
| THRENODY | Song of lamentation, especially for the dead; from Greek, 'dirge song' (8) |
| ANACREON | Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine (8) |
| PAPERBACKWRITER | In his just published book, "The Lyrics," Paul McCartney offers details about 154 of his songs; early on he wanted to be a novelist, and for this hit imagined penning "a letter to the publishing compa |
| OVID | Roman poet who wrote of love in Ars Amatoria, myths in Metamorphoses and lamentations and sorrows of his exile in Tristia (4) |
| SPENSER | Poet noted for his portrayal of virtues through knights' quests in The Faerie Queene and a series of 12 eclogues named after months in The Shepheardes Calender (7) |
| PINDAR | Greek lyric poet noted for his victory odes (6) |
| ORPHEUS | Legendary Greek musician and poet noted for his lyre playing (7) |
| CUMMINGS | E. E. _, 20th-Century American poet noted for his unusual use of grammar and punctuation (8) |
| MARVELL | Andrew ___, poet noted for his poem To His Coy Mistress |
