| 100% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore'" |
| 100% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 75% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore'" |
| 64% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the opening line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 63% | POE | 3 | Poet Edgar Allan, who wrote The Raven |
| 63% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote the line "But we loved with a love that was more than love" |
| 62% | OGDEN | 5 | Poet Nash, who wrote the lines in 17-, 24-, 47- and 58-Across |
| 61% | NERUDA | 6 | Poet who wrote "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" |
| 61% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "The Bells" and "The Raven" |
| 60% | POE | 3 | Poet who wrote "The Raven" |
| 56% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade |
| 56% | COLERIDGE | 9 | Poet who wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| 56% | VIRGIL | 6 | Poet who wrote the Aeneid |
| 55% | TENNYSON | 8 | Poet who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade" |
| 55% | TATE | 4 | Poet who wrote the novel "The Fathers" |
| 54% | OVID | 4 | Roman poet who wrote the "Metamorphoses" |
| 54% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the “Masnavi” |
| 53% | HOMER | 5 | Greek poet who wrote the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" |
| 53% | POE | 3 | Who wrote the line "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| 53% | CHAUCER | 7 | English poet who wrote The Canterbury Tales |
| 53% | DANTE | 5 | Italian poet who wrote The Divine Comedy |
| 53% | RUMI | 4 | 13th-century poet who wrote the "Masnavi" |
| 53% | RUMI | 4 | Persian poet who wrote the "Spiritual Couplets" |
| 53% | LEAR | 4 | Edward ___, poet who wrote "The Owl and the Pussy-cat" |
| 53% | MAYAANGELOU | 11 | Poet who wrote the memoir "Mom & Me & Mom" (2 wds.) |
| 53% | TSELIOT | 7 | American-British poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 53% | TSELIOT | 7 | British American poet who wrote The Waste Land |
| 52% | YEATS | 5 | Poet who wrote, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer” |
| 52% | AYN | 3 | Rand who wrote the line "Who is John Galt?" |
| 52% | NEVERMORE | 9 | Quoth the raven __, wrote Edgar Allan Poe |