| ALFREDAUSTIN | Poet who succeeded Tennyson as poet laureate in 1896 |
| AUSTIN | Alfred, English poet who succeeded Lord Tennyson as Poet Laureate in 1896 (6) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred, Lord ___, poet who succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet laureate in 1850 |
| DAVENANT | William ___, English dramatist and poet who succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate in 1638 (8) |
| THOMASSHADWELL | English dramatist (c.1642-92) who succeeded John Dryden as Poet Laureate in 1689 (6,8) |
| ROSEN | Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children's Laureate in 2007 (7,5) |
| MICHAEL | Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children's Laureate in 2007 (7,5) |
| MICHAELROSEN | Novelist and poet who succeeded Jacqueline Wilson as Children's Laureate in June 2007 |
| DRYDEN | John _, poet who was appointed England's first Poet Laureate in 1668 (6) |
| TATE | Nahum ___, Irish poet and dramatist who served as Poet Laureate from 1692 to 1715 (4) |
| BETJEMAN | Sir John ___, English poet who served as Poet laureate from 1972 to 1984 (8) |
| LIMON | "The Hurting Kind" writer Ada, who succeeded Joy Harjo as Poet Laureate (July, 2022) |
| JOHNDRYDEN | English poet, critic and dramatist who became the first official Poet Laureate in 1668 (4,6) |
| NAHUMTATE | Anglo-Irish hymnist and lyricist who became poet laureate in 1692 (5,4) |
| HUGHES | Expression of disgust that man's picked up as Poet Laureate once (6) |
| CECIL | --- Day-Lewis, John Masefield’s successor as poet laureate |
| CAROLANNDUFFY | Simon Armitage’s predecessor as poet laureate |
| NAHUM | First name of the Irish dramatist who adapted Shakespeare's King Lear with a happy ending and was appointed England's poet laureate in 1692 (5) |
| ROWE | Nicholas -; appointed poet laureate in 1715, the dramatist who wrote The Fair Penitent (4) |
| MAUD | ___ and Other Poems, Alfred Lord Tennyson's first collection after becoming poet laureate in 1850 |
