| MYTHOLMROYD | Village in West Yorkshire; birthplace of Poet Laureate Ted Hughes (11) |
| KEIGHLEY | Market town in West Yorkshire; birthplace of political figures Alastair Campbell and Eric Pickles (8) |
| IRON | The - Man; children's novel by former poet laureate Ted Hughes (4) |
| COCKERMOUTH | Birthplace of poet William Wordsworth (11) |
| SYLVIAPLATH | American poet and novelist who married Ted Hughes in 1956 (6,5) |
| DANIELCRAIG | Actor who portrayed Ted Hughes in 2003 biopic Sylvia |
| TEMPLENEWSAM | Tudor-Jacobean mansion in Yorkshire, birthplace of Lord Darnley in 1545 (6,6) |
| HAWORTH | Village in West Yorkshire, home of the Bronte sisters (7) |
| THIRSK | Yorkshire birthplace of Thomas Lord, creator of Lord's cricket ground (6) |
| HAREWOOD | Village in West Yorkshire, site of a house designed by John Carr for Edwin Lascelles that is renowned for its Robert Adam interiors and Thomas Chippendale furniture (8) |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| ALLOWAY | Village in South Ayrshire, Scotland; birthplace of poet Robert Burns |
| CASTLEFORD | Yorkshire birthplace of Henry Moore (10) |
| NISHAPUR | City in northeast Iran; birthplace of poet Omar Khayyam |
| ESPORLES | Picturesque mountain village in west Mallorca that was established in the early Middle Ages (8) |
| DRYDEN | Leading writer of the Restoration period, the first to officially hold the title of Poet Laureate (6) |
| CECIL | What was the first name of Poet Laureate Day-Lewis? (5) |
| MILTON | Name the birthplace of poet Henry Kendall (6) |
| SWANSEA | Welsh birthplace of poet Dylan Thomas (7) |
| RUDYARD | He refused the role of Poet Laureate but accepted the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, ... Kipling |
