| AUDEN | W. H. - poet who dedicated his Pulitzer Prize-winning piece The Age of Anxiety to Sir John Betjeman |
| LUDLOW | Shropshire town described by poet Sir John Betjeman as 'probably the loveliest [...] in England' (1943) (6) |
| HUGHES | Ted -; poet who dedicated his first collection The Hawk in the Rain to his first wife, Sylvia Plath (6) |
| GANGSTER | Mobster leads goners with acute sense of anxiety to central Peru |
| KEATS | Romantic poet who dedicated his Endymion to Thomas Chatterton (5) |
| CLEOLAINE | English singer who was married to Sir John Dankworth (4,5) |
| PACHA | Title given to Sir John Bagot Glubb, OC Arab Legion, 1939-56 (5) |
| ASCHAM | Classical scholar or "scholemaster" who dedicated his treatise Toxophilus to "lover of the bow" Henry VIII (6) |
| WHAUDEN | British-born US poet awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the 1947 work The Age of Anxiety (1,1,5) |
| WYATT | Poet at the court of Henry VIII who dedicated several verses to his alleged lover, Anne Boleyn (5) |
| ALLEY | Kiwi who dedicated his life to Communist China, Remi _ (5) |
| PIPER | Artist John Egerton Christmas who painted The Englishman's Home for the Festival of Britain, designed stained glass and collaborated with John Betjeman, Geoffrey Grigson and Ben Nicholson, among other |
| RANSOME | Author who dedicated the first book in his Swallows and Amazons series to the six for whom it was wr |
| EZRAPOUND | U.S. poet and critic to whom TS Eliot dedicated his poem The Waste Land (4,5) |
| BILLBUFORD | American author and journalist to whom Salman Rushdie dedicated his 2008 novel The Enchantress of Florence |
| SHELL | Outer layer of a bird's egg; or, a series of county guidebooks whose contributors included John Betjeman, Paul Nash and John Piper (5) |
| BRAIN | Surname of a famous English horn player to whom Benjamin Britten dedicated his Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (5) |
| EM | "The Age of Anxiety" poet |
| AUDENS | "The Age of Anxiety" poet and family |
| GROVERCLEVELAND | President who dedicated the Statue of Liberty |
