| KIPLING | English poet and novelist (7) |
| THOMASHARDY | English poet and novelist |
| SASSOON | Siegfried _; English poet and novelist (7) |
| INGELOW | Jean, English poet and novelist who wrote several stories for children (7) |
| DELAMARE | Walter ___ ___ ___: famous English poet and novelist (2,2,4) |
| GRAVES | Robert _; English poet and novelist (6) |
| MEREDITH | George _; English poet and novelist, author of Modern Love (8) |
| LAURIE | _ Lee, English poet and novelist whose works included Cider With Rosie (6) |
| KEROUAC | Beat poet and novelist, 1922-69, Jack ___ (7) |
| LAVINIA | ____ Greenlaw, poet and novelist born in 1962 (7) |
| EZEKIEL | Poet and novelist considered one of the foremost Indian writers in English of his time, Nissim ... |
| BENOKRI | Nigerian poet and novelist who won the 1991 Booker Prize with The Famished Road (3,4) |
| STEVIESMITH | 20th Century English poet and novelist whose best-known poem is Not Waving But Drowning (6,5) |
| SPENDER | Stephen ___, English poet and friend of Auden, Isherwood and MacNeice (7) |
| SITWELL | English poet and critic, d. 1964 (7) |
| HERBERT | George --, 1593-1633, English poet and clergyman (7) |
| GABRIEL | Dante -- Rossetti, English poet and painter (7) |
| HOPKINS | English poet and Jesuit priest whose works include The Wreck of the Deutschland (6,6,7) |
| CHAUCER | English poet and author who died in 1400, creator of The Canterbury Tales (7) |
| SKELTON | John -, English poet and tutor to Henry VIII |