| NAHUMTATE | British poet laureate, 1692-1715 |
| NAHUM | And 15 British Poet Laureate (1692-1715) who wrote a version of King Lear with a happy ending in 1681 (5,4) |
| TATE | British Poet Laureate (1692-1715) who wrote a version of King Lear with a happy ending in 1681 (5,4) |
| ROWE | British poet laureate, 1715-18 |
| TED | British poet laureate Hughes |
| CAROLANN | British poet laureate Duffy |
| CECIL | British poet laureate ___ Day-Lewis |
| DAYLEWIS | British poet laureate from 1968 to 1972 |
| ANN | British poet laureate Carol ___ Duffy |
| TEDHUGHES | British Poet Laureate 1984-98 (3,6) |
| ANDREWMOTION | The British Poet Laureate 1999-2009 (6,6) |
| BETJEMAN | John, British Poet Laureate 1972-84 (8) |
| SCOT | British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, for one |
| EUSDEN | 18th-century British Poet Laureate, Laurence ___ |
| WORDSWORTH | William, British poet laureate 1843-50 (10) |
| HUGHES | Ted, British poet laureate, 1984-98 (6) |
| PYE | Henry James ___ (1745-1813), British Poet Laureate who succeeded Thomas Warton in 1790 (3) |
| NICHOLASROWE | English author of plays including Tamerlane (1702) and The Fair Penitent (1703); Poet Laureate 1715-18 (8,4) |
| RIOTACT | 1715 British legislation to prevent civil disorder (4,3) |
| LOUISXV | Important 5-year-old of 1715 |
