| FAERIEQUEENE | The ?, 1590 epic poem by Edmund Spenser |
| FAERIE | The _ Queene, epic poem by Edmund Spenser (6) |
| THEFAERIEQUEENE | Epic poem by Edmund Spenser (3,6,6) |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| FAERIES | Creatures of which Gloriana is the "Queene," in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| AMORETTI | Cherubs, cupids or putti in art; or, a sonnet cycle by Edmund Spenser (8) |
| CHAUCER | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| GEOFFREY | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| GLORIANA | Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I, from the protagonist of Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590-6) (8) |
| BRAGGADOCIO | Empty boasting; from the name of a braggart in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (11) |
| VIOLETS | "She bath'd with roses red, and - blew, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew." Sir Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (7) |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| LAY | "Discord oft in music makes the sweeter ____" (Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene) |
| SPENSER | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| EDMUND | English poet best known for the allegorical romance The Faerie Queene (1590; 1596) (6,7) |
| SWINISH | "___ multitude", term for the masses coined by Edmund Burke in 1790 (7) |
| IRENA | Ireland, to 16th-century Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser |
| CANTO | Division of an Edmund Spenser work |
| MARLOWE | Christopher ___, English dramatist stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in 1593; Doctor Faustus (c. 1590), The Jew of Malta (c. 1592) etc. (7) |
| MDXC | 1590 on a cornerstone |
