| RUDYARD | He refused the role of Poet Laureate but accepted the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, ... Kipling |
| KIPLING | Rudyard ?, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature (7) |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| DRYDEN | Leading writer of the Restoration period, the first to officially hold the title of Poet Laureate (6) |
| MALAMUTESALOON | Setting in The Shooting of Dan Mcgrew, the 1907-published poem by 'Poet of the Yukon' Robert Service: 2 wds. |
| SYNGE | Irish writer of the 1907 drama The Playboy of the Western World (5) |
| CHRISTYMAHON | Title character of the 1907 play The Playboy of the Western World (7,5) |
| MARLONBRANDO | Actor who refused the Oscar he won for The Godfather: 2 wds. |
| SARTRE | French writer who refused the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| CECIL | What was the first name of Poet Laureate Day-Lewis? (5) |
| BRANDO | He refused his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather |
| NEIGH | Utterance of the horse that refused the jump? |
| MONETA | 1907 Nobel Peace laureate |
| MYTHOLMROYD | Village in West Yorkshire; birthplace of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (11) |
| AJAX | He refused to speak to Odysseus in the afterlife |
| AMA | Woody Harrelson had one in 2012 in which he refused to answer questions that weren't related to the movie Rampart: abbr. |
| HAILESELASSIE | A member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, this last emperor of Ethiopia never accepted the status of god accorded to him by the Rastafari movement (5,8) |
| ASMITH | 1925 novel whose author refused the Pulitzer Prize |
| INFIRM | Unstable, but accepted by the company (6) |
| TOOKAPART | Ran down, but accepted a role (4,5) |
