| JOHNMILTON | English poet whose works include the masque Comus (4,6) |
| SHELLEY | Percy Bysshe -, poet whose works include The Masque of Anarchy and Queen Mab |
| HENRY | 17th-century English composer whose works include the opera Dido and Aeneas and the masque The Fairy-Queen (5,7) |
| LILYMILTON | Comedienne turned "Comus" poet |
| THOMASARNE | Composer of Rule Britannia, which appears in his masque Alfred |
| MASKEDBALL | Bal masque |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet whose works include The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad |
| POE | 'The Masque of the Red Death' author |
| MILTON | John, 17c poet whose works include the pastoral drama Comus (6) |
| HOOD | Thomas ___, English poet whose works include 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843) and 'The Bridge of Sighs' (1844) (4) |
| DONNE | John ___, English poet whose works include The Storm and The Calm (5) |
| POPE | Alexander _, English poet whose works include The Rape Of The Lock (4) |
| ARNE | "The Masque of Alfred" composer |
| ALFRED | Arne's "The Masque of ___" |
| LARKIN | English poet whose works include Deceptions and The Old Fools, in his collections The Less Deceived and High Windows respectively (6) |
| JAGO | Richard ___, 18th-century English poet whose works include The Blackbirds (4) |
| CLARE | John, English poet whose works include The Rural Muse (5) |
| SOUTHWELL | Robert ?, 16th-century English poet whose works include The Burning Babe |
| WILLIAMWORDSWORTH | English poet whose works include Lines Written above Tintern Abbey and The Prelude |
| BROOKE | Rupert, English poet whose works include The Old Vicarage, Grantchester (6) |
