| GERALDINE | Character in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Christabel (9) |
| EMMELINEPANKHURST | Founder of the Women's Social and Political Union in 1903, with her daughter Christabel |
| XANADU | Imaginary city in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan (6) |
| ALPH | Sacred river mentioned in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Xanadu (4) |
| MARINER | In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic 1798 poem he was 'ancient' (7) |
| SOUTHEY | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lake Poet brother-in-law who penned After Blenheim, Madoc and the first printed version of The Three Bears (7) |
| OTTERY | ____ St Mary, Devon town that was poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's birthplace (6) |
| KUBLAKHAN | Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge subtitled A Vision In A Dream, first published in 1816 (5,4) |
| COLERIDGE | Samuel Taylor, author of the poem Kubla Khan (9) |
| HANNAH | Biblical character in Samuel |
| ESTRAGON | French name for the herb tarragon; character in Samuel Beckett's stage play Waiting for Godot (8) |
| ERNEST | Central character in Samuel Butler's novel The Way Of All Flesh (6,8) |
| PONTIFEX | Central character in Samuel Butler's novel The Way Of All Flesh (6,8) |
| ANCIENT | Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mariner? (7) |
| ALBATROSS | Instead of the cross, the ___ / About my neck was hung." Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (9) |
| LAKEPOETS | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and William Wordsworth collectively (4,5) |
| VLADIMIR | With Estragon, one of the two main characters in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot |
| MARITIME | Seafaring chap briefly introducing it in Coleridge's poem? |
| CROSSBOW | Weapon with which the Ancient Mariner shot the albatross in Coleridge's poem (8) |
| ELI | Judge-priest in Samuel |
