| AENEID | Classic work famously translated by John Dryden |
| JOHN | Whose 1624 prose work famously begins "No man is an island..'? (4,5) |
| DONNE | Whose 1624 prose work famously begins "No man is an island..'? (4,5) |
| ALLFORLOVE | 1677 play by John Dryden (3,3,4) |
| ACHITOPHEL | Absalom and ___, a poetic political satire by John Dryden |
| AMPHITRYON | Play by John Dryden (10) |
| KILLIGREW | Anne ___, English poet and painter eulogised by John Dryden in a 1686 poem |
| JOHNSON | Lexicographer whose Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets comprises short biographies of writers including John Milton, Samuel Butler and John Dryden (7) |
| MDCC | Year that John Dryden died |
| POET | Office to which John Dryden was appointed in 1668 (4,8) |
| COMPLIMENTARY | Describing John Dryden, maybe, critical notes given free (13) |
| HEROIC | ___ couplet, poetic form associated with John Dryden and Alexander Pope (6) |
| PRETENCE | 'The rest to some faint meaning make ___' (John Dryden MacFlecknoe (1682) |
| ODE | "An ___, on the Death of Mr. Henry Purcell" (John Dryden poem) |
| EER | "The world was a fool, ___ since it begun": John Dryden |
| DECAY | "All human things are subject to ___": John Dryden |
| FURY | "Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden |
| NURSE | ' The priest continues what the ___ began' (John Dryden The Hind and the Panther (1687) |
| THOMASSHADWELL | English dramatist (c.1642-92) who succeeded John Dryden as Poet Laureate in 1689 (6,8) |
| POETLAUREATE | Literary title used at various times previously but first confirmed in letters patent for John Dryden in 1668 |
