| DANNIEABSE | Welsh-Jewish poet and author of 'Ash On A Young Man's Sleeve' (1923-2014) |
| ABSE | Dannie, Welsh writer of Ash on a Young Man's Sleeve (4) |
| JUDAHHALEVI | Jewish poet and religious philosopher noted for his poems in dialogue form (5,2-4) |
| GINSBERG | Allen ******** , Jewish poet has drinks with tons of ice (19226-1997) (8) |
| PADEL | Poet and author of 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (4,5) |
| RUTH | Poet and author of 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem (4,5) |
| LERMONTOV | Russian poet and author of A Hero of Our Time |
| RILKE | German poet and author of Poems From The Book Of Hours, Rainer Maria ... |
| GOSSE | Edmund, poet and author of the memoir Father and Son (5) |
| ATWOOD | Which Margaret is a Canadian poet and author of The Handmaid's Tale? (6) |
| LAURIELEE | Poet and author of 1969 autobiographical volume As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (6,3) |
| ALICE | _ Walker, activist, poet and author of The Colour Purple (5) |
| NASHE | Thomas ___, 16th-century pamphleteer, poet and author of The Unfortunate Traveller (5) |
| AUDEN | Poet and author of Nones |
| SON | Wright-written novel about a young man's trials in the racially charged world of 1930's Chicago |
| LOCKSLEYHALL | "A young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" poem |
| PUSHKIN | Russian poet and writer of The Queen of Spades (7) |
| ALLAN | Poet and writer of the macabre and bizarre, Edgar ... Poe |
| LADSLOVE | The lemony camphor-scented "garderobe" or "southernwood", historically a young man's romantic amulet or charm of affection, hence the endearing name in question (4,4) |
| DHARMSALA | A young man's upset about damages in religious building (9) |
