| HEANEY | Seamus -; Nobel laureate who wrote poetry collections including Wintering Out, Field Work, The Haw Lantern and Human Chain (6) |
| REDOUBT | Field-work the Sappers will do, but get wrong (7) |
| DISCUSS | Thrash out field event with spearhead (7) |
| LARKIN | Author of poetry collections including The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows; or, the name of a rural family created by H. E. Bates (6) |
| PINTER | Nobel laureate who wrote the play The Birthday Party |
| MANN | Nobel laureate who wrote Buddenbrooks, The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice and Doctor Faustus (4) |
| ALBERTCAMUS | Nobel laureate who wrote L’Étranger and La Peste |
| VSNAIPAUL | Nobel laureate who wrote "The Enigma of Arrival" |
| ANGELL | Sir Norman -; Nobel laureate who wrote The Great Illusion (6) |
| JOHNGALSWORTHY | Nobel laureate who wrote The Forsyte Saga |
| TONIMORRISON | US Nobel laureate who wrote the novels Sula and Jazz |
| NERUDA | Pablo -; Chilean Nobel Laureate who wrote Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (6) |
| HESSE | Hermann ---, Nobel laureate who wrote Steppenwolf |
| YOUNG | Poet who wrote collections including The White Blackbird, Speak to the Earth and The Green Man and prose-study of rare British wild flora A Prospect of Flowers (5) |
| HUGHES | Poet Laureate from 1984-98 who penned collections including Crow, The Hawk in the Rain and Rain-charm for the Duchy (6) |
| OVID | Who wrote "Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace" |
| AUDEN | Poet who wrote, "Poetry makes nothing happen" in his poem about a poet, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" |
| RAMSAY | Nobel laureate who discovered the noble gases including one with the help of Lord Rayleigh (6) |
| NAHUM | First name of the Poet Laureate who wrote The History of King Lear (5) |
| OSSIAN | Much-bigger-than-average Welsh girl who wrote poetry (6) |
