| WALTWHITMAN | US poet known for works including 'Song of Myself' (published untitled in 1855) and 'O Captain! My Captain!' (1865) (4,7) |
| ECONOMY | Concern of my C.E.O., no? |
| EZRAPOUND | US modernist poet known for works including 1920's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (4,5) |
| LUTHERVANDROSS | American singer-songwriter who won four Grammy Awards in 2004 including Song of the Year for Dance with My Father |
| MILLIE | 'Thoroughly Modern ****** ', 1967 musical comedy film including songs by Sammy Cahn (6) |
| WHITMAN | Poet whose compendium and life-work Leaves of Grass includes I Sing the Body Electric, Song of Myself and To Think of Time (7) |
| ROBERTGRAVES | British poet and author, known for works such 'I, Claudius' and 'Goodbye to all that', who lived in DeA-a, Mallorca from 1929 to 1936 and 1946 until his death in 1985 (6,6) |
| ELEGIZES | Whitman does it in "O Captain! My Captain!" |
| WALT | Poet Whitman who wrote O Captain! My Captain! |
| GOREVIDAL | US writer and intellectual known for works including the 1968 novel Myra Breckinridge (4,5) |
| POUSSIN | French Baroque painter known for works including A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-6) (7,7) |
| NICOLAS | French Baroque painter known for works including A Dance to the Music of Time (c. 1634-6) (7,7) |
| LINCOLN | "O Captain! My Captain!" subject |
| ELEGY | Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!," e.g. |
| ABE | "O Captain! My Captain!" subject |
| DIRGE | "O Captain! My Captain!," e.g. |
| ABELINCOLN | "O Captain! My Captain!" prez |
| OURFEARFULTRIPISDONE | “O Captain! My Captain! ____” (Walt Whitman) |
| KARLMARX | German political philosopher and economist known for works including the three-volume Das Kapital (1867-94) (4,4) |
| RAPHAEL | Italian Renaissance painter known for works including the Sistine Madonna (1512?) (7) |
