| GROT | Dirty mess in poet's cave |
| PIGSTY | Dirty mess |
| HEREDITARY | Some peers are at this place, a dirty mess (10) |
| ANTRE | Poet's cave in verdant region (5) |
| CHAUCER | The Canterbury Tales author, who was the first of the poets to be buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey (7) |
| CSLEWIS | British novelist and Christian scholar, honoured in 2013, 50 years after his death, with a memorial in Poets' Corner (1,1,5) |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Oliver Twist novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| PRIOR | Matthew ---, English poet and diplomat buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey in 1721 (5) |
| SUPER | Above, adv. or prep + acc (abl. in poets) |
| BURNONESBRIDGES | Individual immersed in poets gets to make irrevocable commitment |
| RETROSPECTION | Time in Poets' Corner I spent recalling events |
| XANADU | Stuck in mud, an axle's flipped over in poet's city (6) |
| SPENSER | Commemorated in Poets' Corner, the author of The Shepheardes Calender and the allegorical romance celebrating Elizabeth I The Faerie Queene (7) |
| DAVENANT | Sir William ___, 17th-century English poet and playwright buried in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey |
| RUDYARDKIPLING | Just So Stories writer who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| ROBERTBROWNING | My Last Duchess poet who was buried in Poets' Corner: 2 wds. |
| THOMSON | Commemorated in Poets' Corner with a memorial designed by Robert Adam, a Scottish bard and dramatist whose The Seasons inspired works by the likes of Clare, Gainsborough, Haydn, Reynolds and Turner (7 |
| DAVIDGARRICK | 18th-Century English actor and theatre manager buried in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey (5,7) |
| OERCOME | Ceremonious posturing without us in poet's triumph (7) |
| ISOTOPE | Elemental form is uppermost in poet's heart (7) |
