| BETJEMAN | Sir John -; a founding member of the Victorian Society, appointed the UK's Poet Laureate in 1972 (8) |
| ARMITAGE | Simon -; author of Kid who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy as the UK's poet laureate (8) |
| BRIDGES | Robert -; the UK's poet laureate from 1913-30 who wrote The Testament of Beauty (7) |
| TENNYSON | October 12, 1892, the day of this poet laureate's funeral, was a national day of mourning in England, because he was considered the leading poet of the Victorian era. |
| DAYLEWIS | UK's Poet Laureate from 1968-72 who wrote the Nigel Strangeways novels under the pen name Nicholas Blake and also The Otterbury Incident for children (3-5) |
| MANULIFE | Sir John A. Macdonald was the first President of what Canadian insurance company founded in 1887? |
| DAVENANT | William ___, English dramatist and poet who succeeded Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate in 1638 (8) |
| KAUFFMAN | Swiss Neoclassical painter who was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts; her works include |
| VALLANCE | Patrick, British physician who was appointed the UK government's Chief Scientific Adviser in 2018 (8) |
| ALGERNON | First name of the Victorian poet Swinburne (8) |
| MATTHEWS | Cerys, a founding member of the Welsh rock band Catatonia (8) |
| ANGLICAN | St. Alban's ___ Church (Where Sir John A. Macdonald worshipped in Ottawa) |
| SCOTLAND | Sir John A. Macdonald's birthplace |
| KINGSTON | Sir John A. Macdonald burial city |
| RAILROAD | Sir John A. Macdonald's transcontinental success |
| LEBRUN | A founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture noted for his paintings on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| YARRAJUNCTION | In which town did the 36-inch gauge of the Powelltown timber tramway meet the standard gauge of the Victorian Railway? (5,8) |
| JOHNDRYDEN | English poet (1631 - 1700), appointed the first Poet Laureate in 1668 (4,6) |
| WARD | Artist known as "Spy" whose many watercolour caricatures of prominent members of Victorian society featured in the pages of the second Vanity Fair (4) |
| PRERAPHAELITE | Member of an small group formed in 1848 to oppose the dominant conventions of the Victorian art world (3-10) |
