| APHRABEHN | English Restoration playwright and poet noted for The Rover (5,4) |
| BALLADE | Honda model - basis for the Rover 200 series (7) |
| METRO | Which model made way for the Rover 100? (5) |
| BAROFSOAP | Cleaning aid for The Rover's Return? (3,2,4) |
| BEHN | Restoration playwright Aphra __ |
| PEACOCK | Thomas Love --, English novelist and poet noted for his satirical romances (7) |
| SIMONIDES | Ancient Greek poet noted for his songs of lamentation and odes to victory (9) |
| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet and the only person buried upright in Westminster Abbey (3,6) |
| EMILYBRONTE | English author and poet noted for her single novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 (5,6) |
| ORPHEUS | Legendary Greek musician and poet noted for his lyre playing (7) |
| STEIN | Gertrude ***** , novelist and poet noted for her Parisian salon (5) |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas _, English Jacobean playwright and poet (9) |
| GINSBERG | Allen, U.S. Beat poet noted for the poem Howl (8) |
| TASSO | Torquato ___, Italian poet noted for the 1581 epic Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (5) |
| AUDEN | W. H., poet noted for the poem Funeral Blues (5) |
| AEROSPACE | They sold the Rover Group to BMW in 1994 (7,9) |
| CLARE | Poet noted for descriptions of English rural life in works such as The Shepherd's Calendar, Summer Images, Farm Breakfast, The Badger and The Yellowhammer's Nest (5) |
| EDWARDLEAR | English poet noted for his poems The Jumblies and The Dong With A Luminous Nose (6,4) |
| BINYON | Laurence, English poet noted for his poem For The Fallen (6) |
| CONGREVE | William ___, English playwright and poet whose comedies include Love for Love and The Way of the World |