| ORPHEUS | Legendary Greek musician and poet noted for his lyre playing (7) |
| EVANGELIST | Film about Greek musician and creator of gospel (10) |
| PEACOCK | Thomas Love --, English novelist and poet noted for his satirical romances (7) |
| ORPHEAN | Relating to a Greek poet noted for melodious playing on his lyre (7) |
| SPENSER | Poet noted for his portrayal of virtues through knights' quests in The Faerie Queene and a series of 12 eclogues named after months in The Shepheardes Calender (7) |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet noted for his satires (7) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, war poet noted for his autobiographical Sherston trilogy (7) |
| MARVELL | Andrew ___, poet noted for his poem To His Coy Mistress |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. poet noted for his book Walden about simple living in nature (7) |
| EUTERPE | Inspiration for Greek musician of ill repute adding extra note (7) |
| ARIOSTO | Poet noted for Orlando Furioso (7) |
| APHRABEHN | English Restoration playwright and poet noted for The Rover (5,4) |
| STEIN | Gertrude ***** , novelist and poet noted for her Parisian salon (5) |
| SOBERLY | Cry, with lyre playing without extravagance (7) |
| BRADLEY | Bad lyre-playing by Mr Walsh, host of The Chase (7) |
| EMILYBRONTE | English author and poet noted for her single novel Wuthering Heights, published in 1847 (5,6) |
| YODELER | Canadian singer's lyre playing enthralling lyric |
| ANDANTE | An early Florentine poet, noted as moderately slow (7) |
| ANACREON | Greek lyric poet, noted for his short songs celebrating love and wine (8) |
| SIMONIDES | Ancient Greek poet noted for his songs of lamentation and odes to victory (9) |
