| WESTMINSTER | Poet's corner |
| CHAUCER | The Canterbury Tales author, who was the first of the poets to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (7) |
| ABBEY | 6 __, home to Poets' Corner (5) |
| FROST | Interviewer whose memorial stone is the most recent addition to Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey |
| CSLEWIS | British novelist and Christian scholar, honoured in 2013, 50 years after his death, with a memorial in Poets' Corner (1,1,5) |
| RETROSPECTION | Time in Poets' Corner I spent recalling events |
| SPENSER | Author entombed near Chaucer in 1599, thus creating Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner |
| HANDEL | Which German-born composer was buried in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner in 1759? (6) |
| DAVENANT | Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Oliver Twist novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| RUDYARDKIPLING | Just So Stories writer who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| ROBERTBROWNING | My Last Duchess poet who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| PRIOR | Matthew ---, English poet and diplomat buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey in 1721 (5) |
| THOMSON | Commemorated in Poets' Corner with a memorial designed by Robert Adam, a Scottish bard and dramatist whose The Seasons inspired works by the likes of Clare, Gainsborough, Haydn, Reynolds and Turner (7 |
| GEOFFREY | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| TSELIOT | He's commemorated by a stone at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey that reads "the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" |
| DAVIDGARRICK | 18th-Century English actor and theatre manager buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey (5,7) |
| ELIOT | "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal" writer |
| WEIR | "Dead Poets Society" director Peter |
| ODE | "To the Poets," for one |
