| WILLIAMBLAKE | British visionary, poet and painter, 1757-1827 (7,5) |
| BLAKE | Visionary British poet and painter (1757-1827) (5) |
| BLAKENEY | Poet and painter and soldier and rescuer from Terror (8) |
| SONNETEER | Browsing the web, taken in by visionary poet (9) |
| LAKE | Visionary poet drops cap in red dye |
| EECUMMINGS | US poet and painter who wrote The Enormous Room in 1922 and Tulips and Chimneys a year later (1,1,8) |
| ROSSETTI | Poet, otherwise sister to poet and painter (8) |
| HUNT | Poet and painter of horses and hounds (4) |
| EE | Poet and painter Cummings' initials |
| LERMONTOV | Russian poet and painter (1814-1841) |
| GABRIEL | Dante -- Rossetti, English poet and painter (7) |
| KAHLIL | Poet and painter Gibran |
| DANTE | ___ Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter (5) |
| KILLIGREW | Anne ___, English poet and painter eulogised by John Dryden in a 1686 poem |
| ESSAYIST | Turns out the little sister of the poet and painter here wrote many academic pieces. (8) |
| CIBBER | Colley - - -, English actormanager and playwright who was Poet Laureate from 1730 until his death in 1757 (6) |
| VERNON | Edward ___, British admiral nicknamed Old Grog who died in 1757 (6) |
| NEWCASTLE | Duke of ___, British Prime Minister 1757-62 (9) |
| LAFAYETTE | Marquis de --, 1757-1834, French soldier and revolutionary (9) |
| CLIVE | Robert, British general who was victorious at Plassey in 1757 (5) |
