| 100% | KEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" |
| 79% | KEATS | 5 | "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" poet |
| 69% | ENDYMION | 8 | Poem by John Keats, that starts with "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever..." |
| 45% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Poet who wrote "no one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark" |
| 44% | JOY | 3 | "A thing of beauty is a ___ forever" (Keats' words) |
| 44% | JOY | 3 | "A thing of beauty is a ___ forever" (Keats' line) |
| 44% | THING | 5 | "A ___ of beauty is a joy forever" |
| 43% | WARSANSHIRE | 11 | Somali-British poet who wrote, “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark” |
| 43% | ALLENGINSBERG | 13 | Poet who wrote “Everything is holy! everybody’s holy! everywhere is holy!” in a “Footnote” to one of his poems |
| 43% | LORCA | 5 | Poet who was a friend of Dalí |
| 42% | IMMANUELKANT | 12 | *Philosopher who wrote "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made" |
| 42% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am" |
| 42% | ROBREINER | 9 | Director of 33-Across who will write a foreword for the book by 15-Across: 2 wds. |
| 41% | LEY | 3 | Writer Willy who wrote "The Conquest of Space" ('49) and for whom a crater is named on the far side of the moon |
| 41% | DANTE | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost" |
| 40% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity" |
| 40% | AJOY | 4 | "A thing of beauty is ___ forever" |
| 40% | ALI | 3 | Boxer who received a Liberty Medal for being a "champion of freedom" |
| 40% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote "That is no country for old men" |
| 40% | THAT | 4 | For a person or a thing; Who is ___? |
| 40% | BANKSY | 6 | Anonymous graffiti artist who wrote, “A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with” |
| 39% | PLATH | 5 | Poet who wrote "I am a mountain now, among mountainy women" |
| 39% | BENET | 5 | Poet who won a Pulitzer for "The Dust Which Is God" |
| 39% | LUCRETIUS | 9 | Epicurean poet who wrote On the Nature of Things |
| 39% | TSO | 3 | General for whom a style of chicken is named |
| 39% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote "Nature is the art of God" |
| 39% | PETRARCH | 8 | Italian poet after whom a style of sonnet is named |
| 39% | RIEMANN | 7 | German mathematician for whom a branch of geometry is named |
| 39% | JOULE | 5 | Physicist James for whom a unit of energy is named |
| 39% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |