| MUNRO | Hector Hugh -; author "Saki" whose collection of short stories Beasts and Super-Beasts includes The Hen, The Quince Tree and The Lumber Room (5) |
| SAKI | Author whose Beasts and Super-Beasts includes Dusk, The Cobweb, The Hen and The Quince Tree (4) |
| HHMUNRO | Real name of short story writer Saki |
| ZODIAC | From the Greek meaning "sculptured animal figure", a belt of constellations in the night sky whose beasts include Aries the Ram, Leo the Lion and Sagittarius the Centaur (6) |
| ASHMOLE | Elias ___, 17th-century antiquary whose collection of artefacts and library was donated to Oxford Un |
| LARKIN | Poet, novelist, jazz critic, librarian and editor of The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse whose collection The Less Deceived includes Church Going (6) |
| BROOKE | Rupert --; author whose collection 1914 and Other Poems contains The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and The Soldier (6) |
| LOFTING | Hugh -, author of 1920 children's novel The Story of Doctor Dolittle (7) |
| OGDAN | American whose collections of verse include Hard Lines and Versus (5,4) |
| NASH | American whose collections of verse include Hard Lines and Versus (5,4) |
| BROWNING | Poet whose collection Dramatic Lyrics includes The Pied Piper of Hamelin and My Last Duchess (8) |
| MACDIARMID | Hugh- ,author of 1926 poem A Drunk Man Looks a the Thistle, born Christopher Murray Grieve (10) |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar and poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes March, Bredon Hill, The Lent Lily and Hughley Steeple (7) |
| HEANEY | Poet whose collection Death of a Naturalist includes Blackberry-Picking, Churning Day, Dawn Shoot, The Folk Singers, Trout and Waterfall (6) |
| SLOANE | Physician whose collection formed the foundation of the British Museum (6) |
| WHITMAN | Poet whose collection Leaves of Grass includes I Sing the Body Electric (7) |
| LARDNER | Ring ?, short story writer whose collections include The Real Dope and What of It? (7) |
| CLOUGH | Arthur Hugh -; author of the verse-novel Amours de Voyage who was an assistant to his wife's cousin Florence Nightingale (6) |
| CLARE | Poet whose collection The Rural Muse illuminates aspects of country life including oak trees, fairy rings, a nightingale's nest, forest flowers and a shepherd's hut (5) |
| YEATS | W. B. -; Irish poet whose collection The Tower includes Sailing to Byzantium (5) |
