| RUDYARDKIPLING | Just So Stories writer who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| ROBERTBROWNING | My Last Duchess poet who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Oliver Twist novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| CHAUCER | The Canterbury Tales author, who was the first of the poets to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (7) |
| PRIOR | Matthew ---, English poet and diplomat buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey in 1721 (5) |
| DAVENANT | Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey |
| DAVIDGARRICK | 18th-Century English actor and theatre manager buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey (5,7) |
| MARIACALLAS | Opera singer who was buried in Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery, though she wasn't French: 2 wds. |
| JIMMORRISON | Rock singer who was buried in Paris's Pere Lachaise Cemetery, though he wasn't French: 2 wds. |
| AUSTEN | Jane, English novelist who was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 (6) |
| NELSON | Horatio, naval commander who was buried in St Paul's Cathedral in 1806 (6) |
| HANDEL | Which German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner in 1759? (6) |
| ATBAY | Trapped in a corner: 2 wds. |
| KIPLING | English author and poet born in India, best known for The Jungle Book and his Just So Stories (7,7) |
| RUDYARD | And 9 English author and poet born in India, best known for The Jungle Book and his Just So Stories (7,7) |
| CSLEWIS | British novelist and Christian scholar, honoured in 2013, 50 years after his death, with a memorial in Poets' Corner (1,1,5) |
| RETROSPECTION | Time in Poets' Corner I spent recalling events |
| PASSGO | Turn a particular Monopoly corner: 2 wds. |
| HEMIN | Confine/constrict/corner: 2 wds. |
| CLOSEBY | Around the corner (2 wds.) |
