| TASSO | Torquato -, Italian poet, author of Jerusalem Delivered (5) |
| DANTE | Italian poet, author of the Divine Comedy; ___ Italian Kitchen, busy eaterie in Hale, Altrincham (5) |
| CLARE | Known as the Peasant Poet, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and The Shepherds Calendar who spent his last 26 years in an asylum (5) |
| BYRON | English poet, author of Don Juan (5) |
| HOMER | Greek poet, author of the Iliad and The Odyssey (5) |
| LORCA | Federico Garcia -, Spanish poet; author of 1934 stage play Yerma (5) |
| POUND | Ezra -, American poet; author of Ripostes and The Cantos (5) |
| NOYES | Alfred -, English poet; author of 1940 novel The Last Man (5) |
| LUCAN | Roman poet, author of Pharsalia, dealing with the conflict between Julius Caesar and Pompey (5) |
| SATAN | Character in Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered" |
| OGDENNASH | American poet, author of "Candy is dandy" (5,4) |
| LONGFELLOW | US poet, author of 'The Song of Hiawatha' (10) |
| TENNYSON | Poet, author of "The Lady of Shalott" (8) |
| WALTWHITMAN | US poet, author of Leaves of Grass (4,7) |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English satirical poet, author of The Rape of the Lock (9,4) |
| TORQUATOTASSO | Italian "king of poets", best known for Jerusalem Delivered (8,5) |
| PETERPORTER | Australia-born poet, author of volumes Max is Missing and Afterburner, who died in 2010 (5,6) |
| LORDBYRON | Which Romantic poet, author of Don Juan, was described as 'mad, bad and dangerous to know'? (4,5) |
| COLERIDGE | Poet, author of the 9 19 (9) |
| HORACE | Roman poet, author of 'Ars Poetica' (6) |
