| PHILIPLARKIN | 20th Century English poet whose verse collections include The Whitsun Weddings (6,6) |
| GAVINEWART | English poet whose verse collections include No Fool like an Old Fool and The Young Pobble's Guide to His Toes |
| YEATS | W.B. ---, Irish poet and dramatist whose verse collections include The Tower (5) |
| PHILIP | 20th Century English poet who wrote The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows (6,6) |
| STEVIESMITH | 20th Century English poet and novelist whose best-known poem is Not Waving But Drowning (6,5) |
| LARKIN | Philip ___, 20th Century poet whose verse collections included The Whitsun Weddings (6) |
| BUTLERYEATS | William --- ---, Irish poet and dramatist whose verse collections include 1928's The Tower (6,5) |
| PHILIPSIDNEY | 16th-century English poet whose works include prose work The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia |
| DAYS | Philip Larkin poem included in The Whitsun Weddings (4) |
| HUGHES | Ted, poet whose collections include The Hawk in the Rain (6) |
| JAGO | Richard ___, 18th-century English poet whose works include The Blackbirds (4) |
| ROSSETTI | Christina ?, 19th-century English poet whose works include Remember and The Lambs of Grasmere |
| SOUTHWELL | Robert ?, 16th-century English poet whose works include The Burning Babe |
| EECUMMINGS | US poet whose verse is characterised by eccentric punctuation (1,1,8) |
| BELLOC | Hilaire, poet whose collections include The Bad Child's Book of Beasts (6) |
| LOWELL | Robert, U.S. poet whose collections include The Dolphin (6) |
| LOVELACE | Richard ?, 17th-century English poet whose works include To Althea, from Prison |
| CHATTERTON | Thomas, 18th-century English poet whose poems purported to be by a 15th century monk (10) |
| LARDNER | Ring ?, short story writer whose collections include The Real Dope and What of It? (7) |
| CHRISTINA | 19th-century English poet whose work includes Remember, _ Rossetti (9) |
