| Mary Oliver and Walt Whitman, e.g. |
Boston Globe Mini |
08 Oct 2026 |
| Ada Limon and Amanda Gorman |
USA Today |
01 Sep 2026 |
| The Tortured ____ Department, Taylor Swift album |
The Telegraph Plusword |
25 Aug 2026 |
| *Area in Westminster Abbey where Chaucer is buried |
LA Times Daily |
31 Jul 2026 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| They make matters verse |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
03 Jul 2026 |
| Mahmoud Darwish and Mohammed el-Kurd, for two |
USA Today |
06 Jun 2026 |
| See 17 Down |
The Guardian Cryptic |
26 May 2026 |
| "Dead ___ Society" (Robin Williams film) |
LA Times Mini |
25 May 2026 |
| They deal with stress in their work |
Wall Street Journal |
14 May 2026 |
| Bards (5) |
Mirror Classic |
09 Apr 2026 |
| Well-versed folks? |
Eugene Sheffer |
31 Mar 2026 |
| People who might work with feet? |
USA Today |
17 Mar 2026 |
| People known for their feet? |
Universal |
07 Feb 2026 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| Burns and Frost |
Thomas Joseph |
24 Dec 2025 |
| Well-versed writers? |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
08 Nov 2025 |
| Dead ____ Society, Robin Williams film |
The Telegraph Cross Atlantic |
04 Nov 2025 |
| People who write odes |
Newsday |
06 Oct 2025 |
| Amanda Gorman and Mary Oliver |
USA Today |
19 Sep 2025 |
| Angelou and Frost, e.g. |
Eugene Sheffer |
09 Sep 2025 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| Writers of verse |
USA Today |
05 Aug 2025 |
| Masters of meters and feet |
Wall Street Journal |
29 Jul 2025 |
| Pros with feet and meters |
Wall Street Journal |
12 Jul 2025 |
| Angelou and Dickinson |
Commuter |
02 Jul 2025 |
| Verse pros |
Thomas Joseph |
26 Jun 2025 |
| Keats and Yeats (which ironically don't rhyme), for two |
|
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| Verse writers |
Universal |
10 Jun 2025 |
| Wordsworth, Tennyson, etc |
|
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| Maya Angelou and Robert Frost |
Commuter |
31 May 2025 |
| Authors of verses |
Newsday |
26 May 2025 |
| Robin Williams' Film Dead ___ Society |
|
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| People who write verse (5) |
|
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| Writers of verse |
The Telegraph Plusword |
21 May 2025 |
| Verse writers |
Newsday |
13 May 2025 |
| They take a turn for the verse |
|
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| Multiverse architects? |
|
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| They've cornered a part of Westminster Abbey (5) |
|
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| Frost and Dove, say |
|
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| Writers making a fortune around Mile End (5) |
|
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| Writers of verse |
The Telegraph Quick |
01 Apr 2025 |
| Keats and Yeats |
New York Times |
26 Mar 2025 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| Writers heartlessly making lots of money (5) |
|
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| Plath, Keats, etc. |
|
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| Ones working with meters and feet? |
New York Times Mini |
21 Jan 2025 |
| "Dead ___ Society" (Robin Williams movie) |
|
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| Pesto |
|
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| Slam people? |
|
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| "The Tortured ___ Department" (record-breaking Taylor Swift album released in April, 2024) |
|
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| Lucille Clifton and June Jordan, for two |
|
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| They write verse (5) |
|
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| Writers of verse(5) |
|
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| Burns and Frost |
Thomas Joseph |
22 Nov 2024 |
| Ada Limon and Billy Collins, for two |
|
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| Keats and Frost |
|
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| Creatives who may think on their feet? |
|
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| Masters of allusion? |
LA Times Daily |
25 Oct 2024 |
| Limerick people, e.g. |
|
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| Writers of verse |
The Telegraph Plusword |
18 Oct 2024 |
| Odists and elegists |
|
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| Yeats and Neruda, eg (5) |
|
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| Verse pros |
Thomas Joseph |
01 Oct 2024 |
| ___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey |
New York Times |
22 Sep 2024 |
| "The Tortured _- Department" |
USA Today |
21 Sep 2024 |
| Johnson and Jonson |
LA Times Daily |
15 Sep 2024 |
| Ode authors |
Newsday |
08 Sep 2024 |
| Bards |
Premier Sunday |
01 Sep 2024 |
| See 1 |
The Guardian Weekend |
21 Jul 2024 |
| See 1 |
The Guardian Weekend |
20 Jul 2024 |
| Sappho and Shel Silverstein, say |
|
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| "Well-versed" competitors at a slam |
LA Times Mini |
03 Jul 2024 |
| Movie, Dead _ Society |
|
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| Writers such as Lucille Clifton |
|
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| Frost and Sandburg, e.g. |
|
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| Dickinson and Browning, e.g. |
|
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| Verse writers |
Thomas Joseph |
20 May 2024 |
| "The Tortured ___ Department" (Taylor's record-breaking album) |
|
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| The writers, Edgar and Eliot! |
|
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| Langston Hughes and Robert Frost, for two |
LA Times Mini |
18 Apr 2024 |
| Writers at Cove Conern workshops |
|
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| Writers at Cave Canem workshops |
USA Today |
07 Apr 2024 |
| 63-Across and others |
Universal |
05 Apr 2024 |
| Angelou and Plath |
Universal |
13 Mar 2024 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| Verse writers |
Premier Sunday |
10 Mar 2024 |
| Emma Healey and Kim Addonizio, for two |
|
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| They work with meters |
|
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| Byron, Keats and Shelley |
|
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| "Rhyme pays" believers |
|
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| Byron and Coleridge, e.g. |
|
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| They work in meters |
New York Times |
30 Dec 2023 |
| Pablo Neruda and Sylvia Plath, for two |
|
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| Well-versed folks? |
Eugene Sheffer |
04 Oct 2023 |
| Slam participants |
Wall Street Journal |
09 Sep 2023 |
| Writers like Joy Harjo, Tracy K. Smith, etc |
USA Today |
08 Sep 2023 |
| Keats and Yeats, for two |
|
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| Claudia Rankine and Terrance Hayes, e.g |
USA Today |
22 Jul 2023 |
| Rappers, in a sense |
New York Times |
20 Jul 2023 |
| Experts who deal with stress? |
LA Times Daily |
14 Jun 2023 |
| Writers of odes |
USA Today |
12 Jun 2023 |
| Pindar and Horace |
Wall Street Journal |
27 Apr 2023 |
| The Brownings, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
09 Mar 2023 |
| "Dead ___ Society" (movie starring Robin Williams) |
|
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| They form lines for their work |
New York Times |
28 Jan 2023 |
| Angelou, Brooks and Clifton |
USA Today |
02 Jan 2023 |
| Rhyme writers |
Newsday |
02 Jan 2023 |
| Writers at slams |
USA Today |
18 Nov 2022 |
| Versifiers |
The Telegraph Quick |
23 Sep 2022 |
| Audre Lorde and Lord Byron, e.g |
LA Times Daily |
11 Sep 2022 |
| Some Pulitzer winners |
Newsday |
05 Aug 2022 |
| Sina Queyras and Mary Lambert, for two |
USA Today |
29 Jul 2022 |
| Some write haiku |
Universal |
07 May 2022 |
| Meter pros |
Thomas Joseph |
12 Mar 2022 |
| Foot specialists? |
LA Times Daily |
05 Mar 2022 |
| Foot specialists? |
|
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| Maya Angelou and Mary Oliver, e.g |
Universal |
12 Jan 2022 |
| Meter creators |
LA Times Daily |
10 Dec 2021 |
| Dickinson and Keats |
LA Times Daily |
15 Nov 2021 |
| Writers like Audre Lorde and Sarojini Naidu |
|
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| Well-versed folks? |
Eugene Sheffer |
07 Oct 2021 |
| Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath, e.g. |
|
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| Some Pulitzer winners |
Newsday |
05 Aug 2021 |
| Yeats and Keats, e.g. |
|
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| Elizabeth Acevedo and David Dabydeen, for two |
USA Today |
22 Jun 2021 |
| Authors of verses |
Newsday |
25 May 2021 |
| Writers of verse |
USA Today |
27 Apr 2021 |
| Slam participants |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Apr 2021 |
| Amanda Gorman and others |
Wall Street Journal |
13 Mar 2021 |
| ___ of the Fall, band of "Carnival of Rust" |
|
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| Verse writers |
Newsday |
15 Feb 2021 |
| Some write limericks |
Universal |
29 Dec 2020 |
| Well-versed folks? |
Eugene Sheffer |
29 Dec 2020 |
| "Dead ___ Society" (Robin Williams movie) |
|
|
| Browning and Byron |
Newsday |
01 Nov 2020 |
| They work with feet and meters |
Universal |
31 Oct 2020 |
| 'Dead ___ Society' |
New York Times |
05 Oct 2020 |
| Keats and colleagues |
Newsday |
04 Oct 2020 |
| Verse writers |
Thomas Joseph |
31 Aug 2020 |
| Masters of allusion |
LA Times Daily |
23 Aug 2020 |
| Masters of allusion |
|
|
| Fitting nickname for athletes at Whittier College |
New York Times |
13 Aug 2020 |
| Odists, e.g |
Premier Sunday |
05 Apr 2020 |
| Their work is often in anthologies |
|
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| People writing verses |
Newsday |
05 Aug 2019 |
| Authors of verse |
Universal |
01 Jul 2019 |
| ___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey |
New York Times |
28 Jun 2019 |
| Writers of verse |
Newsday |
13 May 2019 |
| Some Pulitzer winners |
USA Today |
14 Apr 2019 |
| One contemptuous of bards, and where they lie at rest? |
|
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| ___ Corner, section of Westminster Abbey |
|
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| Authors of verse |
|
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| Literary figures |
Newsday |
14 Dec 2018 |
| Keats and Wordsworth, for two |
|
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| Reciters at slams |
USA Today |
19 Oct 2018 |
| Masters of meters |
Universal |
25 Sep 2018 |
| Slam competitors |
Wall Street Journal |
15 Sep 2018 |
| "Dead ___ Society" (movie starring Robin Williams) |
|
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| Writers of haiku |
USA Today |
20 Jul 2018 |
| Masterful rhymers |
Universal |
21 Apr 2018 |
| Keats and Yeats, for two |
USA Today |
19 Apr 2018 |
| Well-versed people? |
Universal |
10 Apr 2018 |
| Versifiers |
Universal |
07 Apr 2018 |
| 'Dead __ Society': 1989 film |
|
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| "Dead __ Society": 1989 film |
LA Times Daily |
18 Mar 2018 |
| Often-anthologized group |
|
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| Writers of haiku |
|
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| Versifiers |
|
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| Masters of meters |
|
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| Masterful rhymers |
|
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| Often-anthologized group |
|
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| Keats and Yeats, for two |
|
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| Reciters at slams |
|
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| Well-versed people? |
|
|
| Slam competitors |
|
|
| Ones concerned with stress |
New York Times |
29 Dec 2017 |
| Rhyme writers |
Newsday |
28 Nov 2017 |
| Meter masters |
New York Times |
24 Nov 2017 |
| Larkin and Plath, e.g |
Universal |
11 Nov 2017 |
| Verse pros |
Thomas Joseph |
10 Nov 2017 |
| Burns and Byron |
Wall Street Journal |
19 Jun 2017 |
| Keats and Yeats |
LA Times Daily |
24 May 2017 |
| Ode authors |
Newsday |
24 May 2017 |
| Keats and Yeats |
|
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| Verse creators |
Premier Sunday |
21 May 2017 |
| They're concerned with feet and meters |
Wall Street Journal |
10 May 2017 |
| Shelley's ''unacknowledged legislators of the world'' |
Newsday |
01 Apr 2017 |
| Users of rhyme schemes |
USA Today |
15 Mar 2017 |
| Larkin and Plath, e.g. |
|
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| Ones concerned with stress |
|
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| Meter masters |
|
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| Keats and Yeats |
|
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| Bards |
Universal |
28 Dec 2016 |
| Kilmer and Keats |
LA Times Daily |
21 Dec 2016 |
| Donne and Bradstreet |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Oct 2016 |
| Limerick writers, e.g |
USA Today |
17 Oct 2016 |
| People thinking on their feet? |
New York Times |
19 Aug 2016 |
| Open-mic readers |
USA Today |
08 Aug 2016 |
| Competitors in a slam |
Wall Street Journal |
22 Jun 2016 |
| Producers of 35-Across |
Universal |
22 May 2016 |
| 84 Across and colleagues |
Newsday |
15 May 2016 |
| 14-Across creators |
USA Today |
04 May 2016 |
| Emma Lazarus and Maya Angelou |
|
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| Ode writers |
USA Today |
19 Apr 2016 |
| Performers at some readings |
|
|
| Dealers in feet and meters |
Wall Street Journal |
28 Jan 2016 |
| Producers of 35-Across |
|
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| Erato is their Muse |
Universal |
01 Jan 2016 |
| People thinking on their feet? |
|
|
| Kilmer and Keats |
|
|
| Bards |
|
|
| Erato is their Muse |
|
|
| Open-mic readers |
|
|
| Limerick writers, e.g. |
|
|
| 14-Across creators |
|
|
| See 35-Down |
New York Times |
30 Dec 2015 |
| Some national laureates |
|
|
| Byron and Browning |
Newsday |
18 Nov 2015 |
| Coffeehouse entertainers |
New York Times |
23 Aug 2015 |
| Masters of rhyme |
USA Today |
14 Aug 2015 |
| Odists and sonneteers |
Newsday |
12 Jul 2015 |
| Wordsworth and Whitman |
Newsday |
01 Jul 2015 |
| Keats and Shelley |
Newsday |
14 Jun 2015 |
| Milton and Millay |
Newsday |
10 May 2015 |
| Erato's group |
Universal |
02 Feb 2015 |
| Pound's ilk |
|
|
| Coffeehouse entertainers |
|
|
| See 35-Down |
|
|
| Masters of rhyme |
|
|
| Maya Angelou and Rita Dove, for two |
|
|
| '01 Savatage album "___ and Madmen" |
|
|
| Some national laureates |
|
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| Erato's group |
|
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| Wordsworth and Whitman |
|
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| Verse writers |
|
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| Odists and sonneteers |
|
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| Milton and Millay |
|
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| Keats and Shelley |
|
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| Byron and Browning |
|
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| Versifiers |
|
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| Whitman and Whittier |
|
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| Pound and Poe |
|
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| Versifiers |
|
|
| Longfellow and Burns |
|
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| Some Pulitzer winners |
|
|
| Ones with muses |
|
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| Millay and Milton |
|
|
| ___ Corner (Westminster Abbey locale) |
|
|
| Versifiers |
|
|
| Poe and Pope |
|
|
| Sonnet writers, say |
|
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| Rhyming writers |
|
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| Some laureates |
|
|
| "Dead ___ Society" |
|
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| Rhyme writers |
|
|
| Whitman and Whittier |
|
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| Browning, Gray, and others |
|
|
| Browning and more |
|
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| Browning and Blake |
|
|
| Keats and Shelley |
|
|
| Browning and more |
|
|
| Foot specialists? |
|
|
| Some open mic performers |
|
|
| "Dead ___ Society" |
|
|
| Sonneteers, for instance |
|
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| Poe and Pound, e.g. |
|
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| Greeting card writers |
|
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| All fools, they say, take one drug among others |
|
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| Performers at some readings |
|
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| Both Brownings |
|
|
| Foot men? |
|
|
| Ode writers |
|
|
| Frost and others |
|
|
| Frost and Burns |
|
|
| Keats and Yeats |
|
|
| Ode writers |
|
|
| Frost and others |
|
|
| Meter masters? |
|
|
| Lyricists, basically |
|
|
| 5-Down and others |
|
|
| Couplet composers |
|
|
| Burns and Byron |
|
|
| Keats and Yeats |
|
|
| Byron and Keats |
|
|
| Keats and Horace, for two |
|
|
| Pound and others |
|
|
| Meter experts? |
|
|
| Meter experts? |
|
|
| Pound and others |
|
|
| Couplet composers |
|
|
| Whittier College's team nickname |
|
|
| Certain people buried in Westminster Abbey |
|
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| Meter makers |
|
|
| They're "born, not made" |
|
|
| People who deal with stress successfully? |
|
|
| Browning and Burns |
|
|
| Meter readers? |
|
|
| Lovelace and Frost, for two |
|
|
| Burns and Allen, e.g. |
|
|
| They're well-versed |
|
|
| Byron and Burns |
|
|
| Well-versed ones? |
|
|
| Writers of sonnets |
|
|
| Frost and Angelou |
|
|
| Masters of meters |
|
|
| Yeats and Keats |
|
|
| Yeats and Keats |
|
|
| Well-versed ones? |
|
|
| Limerick authors, say |
|
|
| They're "born, not made," according to an old saying |
|
|
| Pulitzer candidates |
|
|
| "Dead ___ Society" |
|
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| 74- and 90Across, e.g. |
|
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| Thomas and Hardy |
|
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| Donne and Bradstreet |
|
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| Burns and Allen, e.g. |
|
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| Limerick authors, say |
|
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| Browning and Blake |
|
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| Sexton and Plath, e.g. |
|
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| Yeats and Keats |
|
|
| Artists in a Robin Williams film title |
|
|
| Ruth Lilly Prize winners |
|
|
| Well-versed folks? |
|
|
| Artists in a Robin Williams film title |
|
|
| Frost and Burns |
|
|
| Rhymesters |
|
|
| This puzzle's theme |
|
|
| Frost and Burns, for two |
|
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| Ruth Lilly Prize winners |
|
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| Angelou and Cummings, e.g. |
|
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| Masters and Jonson, e.g. |
|
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| Yeats and Keats |
|
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| Donne and Bradstreet |
|
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| Bards |
|
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| Keats and Yeats |
|
|
| Browning and Frost |
|
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| Millay and Moore |
|
|
| Sonneteers, say |
|
|
| ___ Corner, part of Westminster Abbey |
|
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| "The only poor fellows in the world whom anyone will flatter": Pope |
|
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| Browning and Frost |
|
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| Homer, et al. |
|
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| Sandburg and Silverstein |
|
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| Many songwriters, perforce |
|
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| Poe and more |
|
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| Many songwriters, perforce |
|
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| Masters and Jonson |
|
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| People concerned with feet |
|
|
| Donne and Bradstreet |
|
|
| Frost and Sandburg |
|
|
| Sandburg and Spenser |
|
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| Erato is their Muse |
|
|
| 97 Across's ilk |
|
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| Yeats and Keats |
|
|
| Sonneteers, say |
|
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| Pound and Poe |
|
|
| Keats and Yeats, for two |
|
|
| Frost and Masefield, for example |
|
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| Lovelace and Frost |
|
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| Masters and Jonson |
|
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| Bards |
|
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| Johnson and Jonson |
|
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| Odists |
|
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| "Dead _____ Society" |
|
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| Versifiers |
|
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| Burns and Allen, e.g. |
|
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| Sexton and Pope |
|
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| Pound and others |
|
|
| Coffeehouse entertainers |
|
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| "Dead ___ Society" |
|
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| Homer and others |
|
|
| Rhymers |
|
|
| Bishop and Pope, e.g. |
|
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| Poe and Pound e.g. |
|
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| Rhyming writers |
|
|
| Ruth Lilly Prize winners |
|
|
| Versifiers |
|
|
| Masters and Jonson, e.g. |
|
|
| "Dead ___ Society" |
|
|
| Erato is their Muse |
|
|
| "Dead -- Society" |
|
|
| Eliot and Angelou |
|
|
| Rhymesters |
|
|
| Auden and Angelou |
|
|
| Brooke and Field |
|
|
| Lovelace's colleagues |
|
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| "Dead ___ Society," 1989 film |
|
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| Yeats and Keats |
|
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| Barrett and Browning |
|
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| Wilbur and Kunitz |
|
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| Shelley and Keats |
|
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| Frost and Pound |
|
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| Ashbery and Nemerov |
|
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| Bards |
|
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| Wilbur and Merrill |
|
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| Wilbur and Stevens |
|
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| Arnold and Milton |
|
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| Jarrell and Ciardi |
|
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| Men of letters |
|
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| Blake and Wordsworth |
|
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| Auden and Lowell |
|
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| They don't pay for their license |
|
|
| Vers-librists |
|
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| Bishop and Sexton |
|
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| Burns and Allen Ginsberg |
|
|
| The Brownings, e.g. |
|
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| Elegists |
|
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| Keats and Wordsworth |
|
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| Horace et al. |
|
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| Certain writers |
|
|
| Auden and Frost |
|
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| Men of words |
|
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| Pound et al. |
|
|
| Keats et al. |
|
|
| Carl Sandburg, Marianne Moore, etc. |
|
|
| Climbers of Parnassus. |
|
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| Some open mic performers |
|
|
| ___ Corner of Westminster Abbey. |
|
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| Spenser, Prince of ___. |
|
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| Ones inspired by Helicon |
|
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| Nash and Dickinson |
|
|
| Ginsberg and others |
|
|
| Frost et al. |
|
|
| The Brownings. |
|
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| Certain White House guests. |
|
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| Certain literati. |
|
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| Mistral and Eliot. |
|
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| Clement Moore and Thomas Moore. |
|
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| Viereck, Lowell, and others. |
|
|
| Members of P.E.N. |
|
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| Dickinson and Whittier |
|
|
| ___ Corner, Westminster Abbey. |
|
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| Mistral, Eliot, and others. |
|
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| Writers. |
|
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| Browning and Keats. |
|
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| Burns and others. |
|
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| Jarrell and Jeffers. |
|
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| Men of letters. |
|
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| Viereck, Brooks, Moore. |
|
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| Robert and Elizabeth Browning. |
|
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| Troubadours. |
|
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| Occupants of a "Corner" in Westminster Abbey. |
|
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| Bards. |
|
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| Relatives of Mother Goose. |
|
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| Very important persons in the arts. |
|
|
| Robert Green and John Greenleaf Whittier. |
|
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| Mr. and Mrs. Browning. |
|
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| Lowel and others. |
|
|
| Parnassians. |
|
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| Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, etc. |
|
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| Milton and Arnold. |
|
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| Laureates. |
|
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