| LANDOR | Walter Savage -, British poet and author (6) |
| 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) |
| TRUMAN | President Clinton primarily a poor poet and author (6,6) |
| EMPSON | William ___, British poet and critic who authored 1930's Seven Types of Ambiguity (6) |
| THOMAS | Acclaimed English poet and author who penned The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure (6, 5) |
| LAURIE | ___ Lee, poet and author (6) |
| ATWOOD | Margaret ___, Canadian poet and author who wrote The Handmaid's Tale (6) |
| NADINE | Ms. Williams, Award-winning Jamaican-canadian poet and author |
| DOWSON | Ernest, poet and writer born in 1867 who created the phrase 'Gone with the wind' (6) |
| BORGES | Jorge Luis -, Argentine poet and writer |
| EDITHSITWELL | 20th Century British poet and critic noted for her formidable personality and Elizabethan dress (5,7) |
| BLAKE | William _; British poet and painter (5) |
| GOSSE | Sir Edmund -, British poet and critic |
| ROSSETTI | Name a renowned British poet and painter, Dante Gabriel ... (8) |
| SASSOON | Siegfried _; British poet and novelist (7) |
| ZEPHANIAH | Benjamin ---, British poet and Rastafarian whose collections include Talking Turkeys (9) |
| HARDY | Acclaimed English poet and author who penned The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure (6, 5) |
| ELIOT | TS - - - - -, poet and author (6) |
| ROSEAYLMER | Poem by Walter Savage Landor containing the lines 'Ah, what avails the sceptred race/Ah, what the form divine!/What every virtue, every grace!' |
| SITWELL | Edith ---, British poet and critic who became a Dame in 1954 (7) |
