| CUMMINGS | EE -, US poet whose volumes include 1923's Tulips and Chimneys (8) |
| FROST | Robert ?, US poet whose volumes include 1923's New Hampshire (5) |
| ROBERTFROST | US poet whose volumes include 1923's New Hampshire (6,5) |
| GINSBERG | Allen -, US poet whose volumes include 1956's Howl and Other Poems (8) |
| EECUMMINGS | US poet and painter who wrote The Enormous Room in 1922 and Tulips and Chimneys a year later (1,1,8) |
| SMOKEBOX | Chamber in a boiler between the flues and chimney (8) |
| ANEMONES | "Annelies, White Tulips, and ___": 1944 oil painting by Henri Matisse |
| VONSTROHEIM | Erich, director whose films include 1923's Greed (3,8) |
| AUGUSTUSJOHN | Welsh portrait painter whose works include 1923's Madame Suggia (8,4) |
| STEVENS | Wallace ___, US poet whose volumes include The Auroras of Autumn and Harmonium (7) |
| PLATH | Sylvia ___, US poet whose volumes include The Colossus and Ariel (5) |
| JARRELL | Randall ?, US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and Losses |
| CARLSANDBURG | US poet whose volumes include Cornhuskers (4,8) |
| LOWELL | Robert -, US poet whose volumes include For the Union Dead and Lord Weary's Castle |
| STEEPLEJACKS | People who are trained and skilled in the construction and repair of tall towers, spires and chimneys (12) |
| ROBERTLOWELL | US poet whose volumes of verse include Lord Weary's Castle and For the Union Dead |
| JANDALL | US poet whose volumes include The Lost World and The Woman At The Washington Zoo (7) |
| WHITMAN | Walt ___, 19th-century US poet whose volumes include Leaves of Grass (7) |
| FERLINGHETTI | Lawrence ?, US poet whose volumes include 1958's A Coney Island of the Mind (12) |
| SOOT | A black substance formed by combustion or separated from fuel during combustion, rising in fine particles and adhering to the sides of pipes and chimneys. (4) |
