| LANDOR | Walter Savage ---, English poet (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!' |
| MANLEY | English poet and Jesuit priest whose works include The Wreck of the Deutschland (6,6,7) |
| GERARD | English poet and Jesuit priest whose works include The Wreck of the Deutschland (6,6,7) |
| PHILIP | 20th Century English poet who wrote The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows (6,6) |
| AUSTIN | Alfred, English poet who succeeded Lord Tennyson as Poet Laureate in 1896 (6) |
| LARKIN | English poet (6) |
| DONNED | Got into English poet, foremost of Dadaists (6) |
| DRYDEN | 17th century English poet and dramatist (6) |
| GRAVES | Wine - English poet - tombs (6) |
| HUGHES | English poet, d.1998 - husband of Sylvia Plath (6) |
| GRAMMY | Award English poet received eleven years ago? (6) |
| MARVEL | Sound of English poet a wonder (6) |
| ARNOLD | Matthew --, 1822-88, English poet (6) |
| MORRIS | William, English poet who founded the Kelmscott Press (6) |
| BROOKE | English poet could be holding a chess piece (6) |
| MILTON | Which English poet wrote Paradise Lost? (6) |
| CRABBE | Mostly bad-tempered English poet (6) |
| WALTER | ___ de la Mare, English poet (6) |
| LAURIE | - Lee, English poet and author (6) |
