| PEARLS | What of her mistress Carol Ann Duffy felt against her own skin (6) |
| JOHNNIEHOLCOMB | Classmate who "was loved and respected for her courageous battle against her own cancer, but even mo |
| POETRY | What Carol Ann Duffy writes (6) |
| IMOGEN | Princess of Britain in Cymbeline who marries Posthumus against her father's wishes and later disguises herself as pageboy Fidele (6) |
| MISBAH | ___ Maalik, Chester woman who hopes to press charges against her rapist ex, Ali Shahzad (6) |
| SECURE | Comfortable in one's own skin |
| CUSSER | Scoundrels against Her Majesty -- one swears (6) |
| STELLA | At the outset, everything turned against her (6) |
| AMANDA | Knox who was released from an Italian prison in 2011 after the murder conviction against her was overturned |
| ONION | What did Carol Ann Duffy give her valentine, in preference to a satin heart? (5) |
| WEAPON | The "what" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this qu |
| YEAHSO | "What of it?" |
| POETICLICENCE | 17Unconventional approach from Carol Ann Duffy, say (6,7) |
| ARMITAGE | Simon -; author of Kid who succeeded Carol Ann Duffy as the UK's poet laureate (8) |
| LAUREATE | What Simon Armitage succeeded Carol Ann Duffy as (4.8) |
| LASTPOST | A ceremonial bugle call traditionally sounded on Remembrance Day; or, the title of a poem by Carol Ann Duffy (4,4) |
| POETLAUREATE | Carol Ann Duffy or Simon Armitage, e.g. (4,8) |
| HATHAWAY | "Anne --", poem by Carol Ann Duffy (8) |
| SCOT | British poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, for one |
| POEM | Carol Ann Duffy work, e.g. |
