| ABSE | Dannie ___, Welsh doctor and poet who the Cholmondeley Award in 1985 (4) |
| NIMMO | Dorothy --, poet, winner of the 1996 Cholmondeley Award (5) |
| AEHOUSMAN | Poet who's the subject of Tom Stoppard's "The Invention of Love" |
| AMADEUS | Film about Mozart that won the Best Picture Academy Award in 1985 (7) |
| EURYTHMICS | Duo who performed their song "Would I Lie to You?" to open the second MTV Video Music Awards in 1985 |
| CAMBRIAN | Welsh doctor with attitude turning up in prison (8) |
| THEYEOMENOFTHEGUARD | G&S operetta with Jack Point and Sir Richard Cholmondeley (3,6,2,3,5) |
| ODEONMELANCHOLY | Work of Keats? No, a Cholmondeley construction (3,2,10) |
| PONA | Italian doctor and poet |
| HUGO | French dramatist, novelist and poet who tells the tale of characters Esmeralda and Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (4) |
| LEAR | Artist, humorist and poet who, whilst living at Knowsley Hall, wrote of an owl and a pussy-cat in a pea-green boat, with honey and plenty of money, folded up in a five-pound note (4) |
| SETH | Indian novelist and poet who wrote The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy and the fable collection Beastly Tales (4) |
| NASH | Humorist and poet who penned volumes of verse including The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse, Custard and Company and Hard Lines (4) |
| HOWE | Julia Ward ___, US abolitionist and poet who authored The Battle Hymn of the Republic (4) |
| SHEM | Who, the eldest of Noah's sons, is the traditional ancestor of the Hebrews? (4) |
| OWEN | Wilfred ---, First World War soldier and poet who wrote Anthem For Doomed Youth and Futility (4) |
| LAMB | Charles -, essayist and poet Who wrote under the pen-name Elia (4) |
| WREN | A little bird told me who the architect was (4) |
| ACID | The Who "The ___ Queen" |
| REAL | The Who "The ___ Me" |
