| JOHNMASEFIELD | Poet Laureate who wrote Salt-Water Ballads (4,9) |
| MASEFIELD | Poet Laureate, from 1930-67, who wrote Salt-Water Ballads and children's novels including The Box of Delights and The Midnight Folk (9) |
| JOHN | First name of the poet who wrote Salt-Water Ballads (4) |
| BRIDGES | Robert ___, Poet Laureate who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) |
| ADALIMON | Poet laureate who wrote The Hurting Kind |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| TATE | See 58 (0) Poet laureate who wrote a version of King Lear witha happy ending (5,4) |
| CECIL | British Poet Laureate who wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, ... Day-Lewis |
| JOHNBETJEMAN | Poet Laureate, who wrote that Slough 'isn't fit for humans now' (4,8) |
| SEAFEVER | Poem by John Masefield included in 1902 volume Salt-Water Ballads |
| RITADOVE | U.S. poet laureate who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 |
| SEA | Poem by John Masefield included in 1902 volume Salt-Water Ballads (3,5) |
| FEVER | Poem by John Masefield included in 1902 volume Salt-Water Ballads (3,5) |
| VSNAIPAUL | Nobel laureate who wrote "The Enigma of Arrival" |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; Nobel laureate who wrote The Great Illusion (6) |
| HESSE | Hermann ---, Nobel laureate who wrote Steppenwolf |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| ALBERTCAMUS | Nobel laureate who wrote L’Étranger and La Peste |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | Nobel laureate who wrote The Forsyte Saga |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
