| BROWNING | Poet whose collection Dramatic Lyrics includes The Pied Piper of Hamelin and My Last Duchess (8) |
| WAGTAIL | A slender songbird whose types in the UK include the pied and the grey (7) |
| ROBERTBROWNING | My Last Duchess poet who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| MERCER | Johnny, American singer and composer whose lyrics include those to Moon River (6) |
| COPY | Policeman and my last ape |
| HOSIERY | His first tree and my last stockings |
| GREENAWAY | Victorian watercolourist noted for her pastel-hued illustrations in "toy books" including Language of Flowers, Marigold Garden, Mother Goose, Under the Window and Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| WESER | The river in which the rats were drowned by the Pied Piper of Hamelin (5) |
| MOUSER | What could describe the trade of the Pied Piper of Hamelin (6) |
| RATS | Followers of the Pied Piper of Hamelin |
| RAT | The Pied Piper of Hamelin, e.g. |
| WESTWOOD | Vivienne, fashion designer whose collections included Punkature in 1982 (8) |
| HOUSMAN | Classical scholar and poet whose collection A Shropshire Lad includes March, Bredon Hill, The Lent Lily and Hughley Steeple (7) |
| HEANEY | Poet whose collection Death of a Naturalist includes Blackberry-Picking, Churning Day, Dawn Shoot, The Folk Singers, Trout and Waterfall (6) |
| WHITMAN | Poet whose collection Leaves of Grass includes I Sing the Body Electric (7) |
| HAMELIN | Medieval legend of rats appearing and children disappearing, The Pied Piper Of ... |
| CLARE | Poet whose collection The Rural Muse illuminates aspects of country life including oak trees, fairy rings, a nightingale's nest, forest flowers and a shepherd's hut (5) |
| LARKIN | Poet, novelist, jazz critic, librarian and editor of The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse whose collection The Less Deceived includes Church Going (6) |
| MUNRO | Hector Hugh -; author "Saki" whose collection of short stories Beasts and Super-Beasts includes The Hen, The Quince Tree and The Lumber Room (5) |
| YEATS | W. B. -; Irish poet whose collection The Tower includes Sailing to Byzantium (5) |
