| WORDSWORTH | The writer of the poem known as 'Daffodils' (10) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | Persian author (c. 1048-1131) of the poems known as the Rubaiyat ('quatrains'), first translated into English in 1859 (4,7) |
| IWANDEREDLONELYASACLOUD | Wordsworth poem popularly known as Daffodils |
| JUVENAL | Roman poet who wrote a collection of poems known as the Satires (7) |
| NARCISSI | Spring flowering plants commonly known as daffodils (8) |
| BLINDHARRY | The author of the poem 'The Wallace', which recounts the life of William Wallace (5,5) |
| LIBRETTIST | The writer of the words for a musical, opera or play (10) |
| WILLIAMSON | Surname of the writer of Tarka the Otter (10) |
| UMBERTO | Forename of the writer of The Name of the Rose (7) |
| EDNA | First name of the writer of the 1960 novel The Country Girls (4) |
| MAEVE | Forename of the writer of the novel 'Circle of Friends', - Binchy (5) |
| WOOLF | Surname of the writer of the 1927 novel To the Lighthouse (5) |
| WALTERDELAMARE | Writer of the poem The Listeners (6,2,2,4) |
| YEATS | Writer of the poem The Second Coming (5) |
| TELEGRAPHY | Signalling start of the poem about 8, largely (10) |
| JK | "Rowling" along: The initials of the writer of the Harry Potter books (or what a texter types when she's "just kidding") |
| LYRICIST | The writer of the words of songs (8) |
| SPYRI | Surname of the writer of the 1881 novel Heidi (5) |
| SNORRI | ____ Sturluson was traditionally seen as the writer of the Prose Edda |
| OBRIEN | Surname of the writer of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (6) |
