| THOMAS | Poet who wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales" |
| TIPPETT | Sir Michael -; composer who wrote A Child of Our Time (7) |
| STEVENSON | Author noted for his tales about Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Ben Gunn and the "black spot" in Treasure Island who also wrote A Child's Garden of Verses (9) |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| DYLAN | "A Child's Christmas in Wales" author Thomas |
| DYLANTHOMASMANN | Author of "A Child's Christmas in the Magic Mountain"? |
| NEWTOY | Many an item on a child's Christmas list |
| AWED | A child's Christmas morning state |
| OMAR | Poet who wrote a-a-b-a verses |
| KEATS | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| POE | Poet who wrote a poem about a talking raven |
| RIMBAUD | Arthur ---, French poet who wrote A Season In Hell (7) |
| BETJEMAN | Poet who wrote A Nip in the All and an anthology illustrated by David Gentleman, his teddy bear Archibald Ormsby-Gore inspired Evelyn Waugh's Aloysius (8) |
| WHAUDEN | British poet who wrote a tribute to Sigmund Freud down in 1939 (1,1,5) |
| HERMANMELVILLE | American writer and poet who wrote a very famous book, in which the narrator, Ishmael, marries his friend Queequeg. |
| QUARLES | Francis ___, 17th-century English poet who wrote 'A Feast for Worms' |
| CAREW | Poet who wrote "A Rapture" |
| EDWADLEAR | English poet who wrote "A Book of Nonsense" |
| HOUSMAN | Poet who wrote "A Shropshire Lad" |
| NASH | Poet who wrote "A bit of talcum is always walcum." |
