| MACNEICE | Louis ___, poet whose volumes include The Burning Perch and The Earth Compels (8) |
| ALIGHT | Burning perch (6) |
| SOUTHWELL | Robert ?, 16th-century English poet whose works include The Burning Babe |
| MITCHELL | Adrian ___, poet whose volumes include All Shook Up and Heart on the Left (8) |
| MONTAGUE | John Patrick, Irish poet whose volumes include The Great Cloak (8) |
| BROWNING | Robert ___, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News From Ghent To Aix and Love Among |
| ROSSETTI | Christina Georgina ___, poet whose works include 23 (8) |
| JARRELL | Randall, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and The Woman at the Washington Zoo (7) |
| JANDALL | US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and The Woman At The Washington Zoo (7) |
| EXTORTER | Royalty will accept the unknown luxury food he compels one to produce (8) |
| CLARE | John ?, English poet whose volumes include The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel (5) |
| LARKIN | Philip ?, poet whose volumes include The Less Deceived and The North Ship |
| COPE | Wendy ___, poet whose volumes include If I Don't Know and Serious Concerns (4) |
| AYRES | Pam ___, poet whose volumes include Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter and Surgically Enhanced (5) |
| DRAGOONS | Compels to join the troops (8) |
| ENFORCER | A person or group that compels compliance with a law (8) |
| STEVENS | Wallace ___, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium (7) |
| PLATH | Sylvia ___, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel (5) |
| RAINE | Craig ___, poet whose volumes include 1979's A Martian Sends a Postcard Home (5) |
| ENFORCES | Compels observance of law, etc. (8) |
