| BENJONSON | English playwright and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (3,6) |
| TATE | Nahum, poet laureate of England from 1692-1715; writer of such hymns as While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (4) |
| ROSEPETAL | Real poet's written about a bit of a floribunda (4-5) |
| BRECHT | Playwright and poet who adapted The Beggar's Opera into The Threepenny Opera (6) |
| FIENNES | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| RANULPH | British explorer, writer and poet who was the first person to completely cross Antarctica on foot (7,7) |
| RRP | Alsatian artist and poet who was cofounder of Dadaism in Zurich. |
| KEROUAC | Jack, U.S. novelist and poet who was a leading figure in the Beat Generation (7) |
| LESMURRAY | Aust. poet who was the literary editor of the journal Quadrant (3,5) |
| CONGREVE | William ---, English playwright and poet of the Restoration who influenced the comedy of manners genre (8) |
| APHRABEHN | English Restoration playwright and poet noted for The Rover (5,4) |
| PRIVATION | Putting a VIP into first real bad lack of comfort |
| MIDDLETON | Thomas _, English Jacobean playwright and poet (9) |
| JOHNGAY | English playwright and poet of the early 18th century (4,3) |
| RITAJOE | Member of the Order of Canada known as 'The Poet Laureate of the Mi'kmaq People': 2 wds. |
| ADA | Limon who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, influential English playwright and poet stabbed to death in a Deptford tavern in 1593 (7) |
| COLLEYCIBBER | Actor-manager, playwright and poet laureate who was the chief target of Alexander Pope's satirical poem The Dunciad (6,6) |
| RICHARDSAVAGE | English poet who was the subject of Samuel Johnson's first extended literary biography, published in 1744 (7,6) |
| BYRON | Poet who was the father of the mathematician Ada Lovelace (5) |
