| 100% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The Cow" and "The Panther" |
| 75% | LEAR | 4 | Edward ___, poet who wrote "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" |
| 74% | HOMER | 5 | Greek poet who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" |
| 69% | OYD | 3 | Poet who wrote "Fortune and love favor the brave" |
| 69% | ELIOT | 5 | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| 69% | AUDEN | 5 | Poet who wrote "For the Time Being" and "Another Time" |
| 69% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "The Bells" and "The Raven" |
| 69% | NASH | 4 | Poet who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk" |
| 67% | OGDEN | 5 | Poet Nash, who wrote the lines in 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 67% | ALLEN | 5 | ___ Ginsberg, poet who wrote "Howl" and a major figure of the Beat Generation |
| 66% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Civil rights icon and poet who wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings": 2 wds. |
| 66% | ANNE | 4 | ___ Bronte, novelist and poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell |
| 65% | ADRIENNERICH | 12 | Poet and feminist who wrote “The moment of change is the only poem” |
| 65% | WILLIAMBUTLER | 13 | ___ Yeats, Irish poet who wrote the poem "The Second Coming" and helped found the Abbey Theatre: 2 wds. |
| 64% | NASH | 4 | Ogden ___, American poet who wrote "The Turtle" and is known as one of the foremost producers of humorous poetry |
| 63% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 63% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 63% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 63% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'" |
| 63% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 63% | OMAR | 4 | Poet who wrote "The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on" |
| 62% | RAES | 4 | Carson who wrote the Fire and Thorns Trilogy, a NYT best-seller, and poet Armantrout who penned "Versed", a Pulitzer winner |
| 62% | MAILER | 6 | Norman who wrote The Naked and the Dead |
| 61% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 61% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 61% | TSELIOT | 7 | Poet who wrote about Grizabella and Mungojerrie |
| 61% | SEALE | 5 | Bobby who wrote “Seize the Time: The Story of The Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton” |
| 61% | LEAR | 4 | Edward who wrote "The Owl and the Pussycat" |
| 61% | READE | 5 | Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth" |
| 61% | FREUD | 5 | Psychoanalyst who wrote "The Ego and the Id" |