| AUDEN | W. H. - - -, Anglo-American poet, critic and librettist who wrote Funeral Blues or Stop All The Clocks (5) |
| JOHNDRYDEN | English poet, critic and dramatist who became the first official Poet Laureate in 1668 (4,6) |
| LERNER | Lyricist and librettist who produced musicals with Loewe, Weill, Previn and Bernstein, Alan Jay ... |
| WHAUDEN | Poet whose 'Stop all the clocks' featured 'n the film Four Weddings and a Funeral (1,1,5) |
| GILBERT | W.S., playwright and librettist who worked with Arthur Sullivan (7) |
| FUNERALBLUES | W.H. Auden poem that begins 'Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone' (7,5) |
| EDITH | English poet, critic and biographer (1887-1964) whose autobiography, Taken Care Of, was published posthumously in 1965 (5) |
| SITWELL | English poet, critic and biographer (1887-1964) whose autobiography, Taken Care Of, was published posthumously in 1965 (7) |
| MIKADO | The -; one of the collaborations of composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W. S. Gilbert (6) |
| LEN | Author Deighton who wrote Funeral in Berlin |
| TSELIOT | Anglo-American poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948 (1,1,5) |
| DONGIOVANNI | Second of the three collaborations between Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte (1787), concerning 'The Rake Punished' (3,8) |
| BASICS | Distraught, asks Big Tobacco: "Stop all the fancy stuff!" (2,4,2,6) |
| GOBACKTO | Distraught, asks Big Tobacco: "Stop all the fancy stuff!" (2,4,2,6) |
| HAMMERSTEIN | Librettist who co-wrote the musical Show Boat with Jerome Kern (11) |
| SKIFFLE | A kind of folk music with a blues or jazz flavour popular in the 1950s (7) |
| UNITE | Stop all the infighting |
| ELIOT | Anglo-American poet |
| STL | Home of the NHL's Blues or MLB's Cardinals on scoreboards |
| THOM | Anglo-American poet Gunn |
