| SYLVIAPLATH | Poet who wrote The Bell Jar (6,5) |
| SYLVIA | Tragic poet and novelist who wrote The Bell Jar, ... Plath |
| PLATH | Sylvia __, poet who wrote The Bell Jar (5) |
| POE | Poet who wrote "The Bells" and "The Raven" |
| IAM | The Bell Jar: "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart..." (1, 2) |
| ROMANACLEF | Type of novel such as The Bell Jar, e.g. (10) |
| THOMASMOORE | Irish poet who wrote the lyrics for The Last Rose of Summer and The Minstrel Boy |
| EMMALAZARUS | Female US poet who wrote The New Colossus (the poem on the Statue of Liberty): 2 wds. |
| ALFREDNOYES | English poet who wrote "The Highwayman" |
| CLOCHE | From the French for "bell", a bell jar serving as a miniature greenhouse (6) |
| GLASSCASE | Bell jar relative |
| BOTTLINGPLANT | Putting bell jar over succulent in manufacturing facility |
| RHUBARB | Pinkish leaf-stalks forced under terracotta cloches or bell jars; word repeated by actors to simulate background conversation; a row, rumpus or squabble; or, nonsense (7) |
| LONGFELLOW | Henry Wadsworth -; "fireside poet" who wrote The Wreck of the Hesperus,The Village Blacksmith and The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| ELIOT | What was the surname of the poet who wrote the play Murder in the Cathedral? (5) |
| HOODORNAMENT | Holiday tree decoration hung by the poet who wrote "The Song of the Shirt"? |
| EZRA | Forename of the poet who wrote the 800-page unfinished The Cantos (4) |
| RORIE | David ---, Scottish doctor, folklorist and poet who wrote the song The Lum Hat Wantin' The Croon (5) |
| ROSSETTI | Christina --, poet who wrote the words of the Christmas carol "In the Bleak Midwinter" (8) |
| NASH | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |