| MACNEICE | Louis ___, poet who wrote Autumn Journal (1939) (8) |
| ALI | Novelist Smith who wrote "Autumn," "Winter," "Spring," and "Summer" |
| ROSSETTI | Christina ___, poet who wrote the words for In the Bleak Midwinter (8) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred, Lord ___, poet who succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet laureate in 1850 |
| NEWBOLT | Sir Henry ___, poet who wrote Vitai Lampada (7) |
| WORDSWORTH | William ___, poet who wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (10) |
| ELIOT | T. S. ___, poet who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" |
| PLATH | Sylvia __, poet who wrote The Bell Jar (5) |
| DUFFY | Carol Ann __, poet who wrote Words, Wide Night (5) |
| LEAR | Edward ___, poet who wrote "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" |
| BUNYAN | John __, poet who wrote The Pilgrim's Progress? (6) |
| MILTON | John __, poet who wrote On His Blindness (6) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried _, poet who wrote satirical anti-war verse during the First World War (7) |
| LOUIS | Poet whose Autumn Journal described the mood as Europe slid towards war in 1939 (5,8) |
| DRYDEN | John _, poet who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668 (6) |
| SPENDER | Stephen ___, poet who authored 1951 autobiography World Within World (7) |
| GRAVES | Robert ___, poet who authored 1929 autobiography Goodbye to All That (6) |
| AYRES | Pam ___: poet who first appeared on Opportunity Knocks. (5) |
| COPE | Wendy ___, poet who compared men to bloody buses (4) |
| LARKIN | Philip __, poet who hesitated before going to church? (6) |
