| "Cats"-inspiring poet |
Premier Sunday |
26 Jul 2026 |
| "The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter..." poet |
Wall Street Journal |
14 Mar 2026 |
| "The Waste Land" poet (2 wds.) |
Commuter |
30 Jan 2026 |
| Who wrote "Humankind cannot bear very much reality" |
New York Times |
20 Sep 2025 |
| Author who created J Alfred Prufrock |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
17 Aug 2025 |
| Poet and playwright whose works include Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1,1,5) |
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| Author whose work 8-Down is based on |
USA Today |
19 Jun 2025 |
| Author whose work Cats is based on |
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| Pioneer in Modernist poetry / Throne |
New York Times |
15 Jun 2025 |
| Poet finds toilets out of order (1 ,1,5) |
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| Poet and playwright who produced The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral (1,1,5) |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
Newsday |
23 Mar 2025 |
| Author of The Waste Land (1,1,5) |
The Guardian Weekend |
15 Mar 2025 |
| Poet and dramatist exercising litotes (1,1,5) |
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| Author of the poems The Four Quartets (1,1,5) |
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| Name atop "Naming of Cats" sheet music |
Newsday |
03 Jan 2025 |
| Modernist initially stranded in bog pushed back |
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| Poet and playwright whose works include The Waste Land and Murder in the Cathedral |
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| "Not with a bang but a whimper" poet |
Newsday |
19 Jul 2024 |
| Liquid in trial backed by poet (1,1,5) |
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| Poet who wrote The Waste Land (1,1,5) |
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| He's commemorated by a stone at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey that reads "the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" |
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| Poet initially stuck in loo turned up (1,1,5) |
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| Poet who inspired the musical Cats |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
Eugene Sheffer |
22 Sep 2023 |
| "The Waste Land" poet |
Universal |
24 Apr 2023 |
| Author of 6/8 |
The Guardian Weekend |
26 Nov 2022 |
| Poet who used the name Old Possum |
LA Times Daily |
27 Mar 2022 |
| Poet who used the name Old Possum |
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| Writer whose initials, when doubled, become another answer in this puzzle |
New York Times |
25 Dec 2021 |
| "The Hollow Men" poet |
Premier Sunday |
26 Sep 2021 |
| Poet who wrote 'I grow old ... I grow old ... / I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled' |
New York Times |
14 Aug 2021 |
| "Cats" poet |
LA Times Daily |
27 May 2021 |
| 'Cats' poet |
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| Literature Nobelist who penned 71-Across |
New York Times |
19 May 2021 |
| ''Cats'' inspiration |
Newsday |
14 Oct 2020 |
| Who wrote 'This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper' |
New York Times |
22 Mar 2020 |
| Modernist poet |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Dec 2019 |
| Famous linesman demolished toilets |
The Sun Two Speed |
31 Dec 2019 |
| 'The Sacred Wood' writer |
Thomas Joseph |
13 Dec 2019 |
| Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock |
Universal |
24 Sep 2019 |
| 'The Waste Land' poet |
USA Today |
17 Jul 2019 |
| 'Four Quartets' poet |
Wall Street Journal |
25 May 2019 |
| 'The Hollow Men' poet |
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| Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| Writer and poet, known for "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock": 3 wds. |
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| 'Murder in the Cathedral' playwright |
Wall Street Journal |
24 Nov 2018 |
| "Do I dare to eat a peach?" poet |
LA Times Daily |
10 Nov 2018 |
| 'Do I dare to eat a peach?' poet |
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| Poet whose work inspired 'Cats' |
New York Times |
14 May 2018 |
| "Whispers of Immortality" poet |
LA Times Daily |
24 Feb 2018 |
| 'Whispers of Immortality' poet |
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| 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' poet |
New York Times |
25 Jan 2018 |
| "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" poet |
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| "Do I dare to eat a peach?" poet |
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| "Whispers of Immortality" poet |
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| Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" playwright |
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| 'The Waste Land' poet |
Eugene Sheffer |
01 May 2017 |
| Inspiration for ''Cats'' |
Newsday |
22 Mar 2017 |
| "Cats" poet |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
LA Times Daily |
25 Sep 2016 |
| Poet who said 'Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers' |
New York Times |
14 Jul 2016 |
| 'The Waste Land' poet |
New York Times |
04 Jul 2016 |
| Writer nicknamed 'Old Possum' by Ezra Pound |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| Poet who said "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" |
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| 'The Hippopotamus' writer |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
LA Times Daily |
12 Oct 2015 |
| 'The Waste Land' poet |
Premier Sunday |
06 Sep 2015 |
| 'Four Quartets' poet |
New York Times |
27 Aug 2015 |
| Mr. Mistoffelees' creator |
LA Times Daily |
12 Jul 2015 |
| Mr. Mistoffelees' creator |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| 'The Waste Land' poet |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| 1948 Literature Nobelist |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
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| Poet born in St. Louis |
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| "Ash Wednesday" poet |
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| Pioneer in New Criticism |
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| Who said "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" |
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| "April is the cruellest month" writer |
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| Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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| He said the most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible |
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| "Gerontion" poet |
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| "The Hippopotamus" writer |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock creator |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| "The Hollow Men" poet |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| 1948 literature Nobelist |
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| "Cats" poet |
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| "The Hollow Men" poet |
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| Whom a UK poetry prize is named for |
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| Founder of the U.K.'s Poetry Book Society |
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| "April is the cruellest month" writer |
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| "Cats" poet |
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| "The Cocktail Party" playwright |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| He wrote "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" |
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| 1948 Literature Nobelist |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" author |
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| Nobel-winning poet |
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| "Cats" poet |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| Prufrock creator |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| 1948 Literature Nobelist |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| "Gerontion" poet |
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| "Ash Wednesday" writer |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| "The Waste Land" poet |
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| "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" speaker |
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| Ezra Pound protege |
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| "The Hollow Men" poet |
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| "Four Quartets" poet |
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| Poet whose work inspired "Cats" |
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| His poetry inspired "Cats" |
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| "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" writer |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock poet |
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| "Mr. Apollinax" writer |
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| 1948 Literature Nobelist |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" playwright |
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| "Cats" source |
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| Ezra Pound contemporary |
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| "The Four Quartets" writer |
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| 1948 Literature Nobelist |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" playwright |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| St. Louis-born writer |
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| 1948 literature Nobelist |
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| "...a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES" poet |
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| 1948 literature Nobelist |
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| J. Alfred Prufrock's creator |
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| "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" writer |
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| His work inspired Cats |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" playwright |
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| "The Cocktail Party" author |
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| "Mr. Apollinax" writer |
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| "The Cocktail Party" playwright |
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| Gerontion poet |
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| "Murder in the Cathedral" writer |
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| See 16 Across |
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| Old Possum, really |
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| Ezra Pound contemporary |
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| His works are the "Cats" meow |
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| "Burnt Norton" poet |
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| Prufrock's creator |
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| Author |
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| "Practical cats" poet |
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| Nobel poet |
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| "Ash Wednesday" poet |
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| "Whispers of Immortality" poet |
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| "Party" and "Clerk" man. |
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| Creator of J. Alfred Prufrock. |
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| Great name in literature. |
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| Nobel Prize poet. |
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