| WARSANSHIRE | Somali-British poet who wrote, "no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark" |
| MOFARAH | Somali-British runner with four Olympic and six World titles |
| TWO | Rhyme time for your feet: One shoe will never do (You can't leave home unless you have ___) |
| NORTHANDSOUTH | What is the mouth in rhyming Cockney slang? (5,3,5) |
| REFUSAL | No one leaves failures out |
| DONNE | Poet who wrote 'No man is an island' |
| AUDEN | WH _, British poet who wrote O Tell Me The Truth About Love (5) |
| WHAUDEN | British poet who wrote a tribute to Sigmund Freud down in 1939 (1,1,5) |
| TONI | Morrison who wrote, "No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind" |
| SASSOON | Siegfried, British poet who wrote the 1918 volume Counter-Attack (7) |
| OUTLET | The mouth of a river; a shop; a means of uninhibited expression; or, a chimney, femerall or other vent (6) |
| BELLOC | French-born British poet who wrote 'Cautionary Tales' (6) |
| ROSSETTI | Christina ---, 19th Century British poet who wrote Goblin Market (8) |
| SHUTE | British novelist (surname) who wrote No Highway (5) |
| GERARD | British poet who authored The Wreck of the Deutschland (6,6,7) |
| MANLEYHOPKINS | British poet who authored The Wreck of the Deutschland (6,6,7) |
| HOOD | Thomas, British poet who authored The Song of the Shirt (4) |
| MONEYLENDING | At sea, my one line breaking off — the work of a shark? |
| DELTA | Tract of sediment deposited at the mouth of a river, typically where it diverges into several outlets, as in the cultivar name of both heuchera and hosta: '___ Dawn' (5) |
| CRATER | What is the bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano (6) |
