| AIKEN | Conrad -, US poet who authored 1927 novel Blue Voyage (5) |
| CANNON | 1970s William Conrad US drama series (6) |
| RALPH | US poet who authored the 1836 essay Nature (5) |
| WALDO | US poet who authored the 1836 essay Nature (5) |
| POUND | Ezra ___, US poet who died in Venice, Italy, in 1972 (5) |
| AUDEN | WH, English-born US poet who wrote the 1937 poem Spain (5) |
| GLUCK | Louise ***** , US poet who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature (5) |
| OTTER | Hawthornden Prize-winning 1927 novel by English author Henry Williamson (5,3,5) |
| ELMER | "--- Gantry", 1927 novel by Sinclair Lewis about a US evangelist (5) |
| TARKA | 1927 novel by Henry Williamson (5,3,5) |
| HESSE | German writer of the 1927 novel Steppenwolf (5) |
| DEATH | 1927 novel by Dorothy L Sayers (9,5) (see 24A) |
| SLEEP | 1927 novel by Edith Wharton (8,5) |
| JALNA | 1927 novel by Mazo De La Roche about the Whiteoak family (5) |
| WOOLF | Virginia _, author of the 1927 novel To The Lighthouse (5) |
| CUMMINGS | EE, US poet who authored the novel The Enormous Room (8) |
| EMERSON | Ralph Waldo ___, US poet who authored 1836 essay Nature (7) |
| LOWELL | Robert, US poet who authored the verse play The Old Glory (6) |
| HEIDEGGER | Martin ?, German philosopher who authored 1927 work Being and Time (9) |
| EZRAPOUND | US poet who died in Venice, Italy in 1972 (4,5) |
