| Baudelaire, e.g. | 16 |
| Rostand or Ronsard | 18 |
| Rostand or Rimbaud | 18 |
| Reims rhymer | 12 |
| French versifier | 16 |
| French rhymer | 13 |
| Baudelaire, par exemple | 23 |
| Baudelaire ou Rimbaud | 21 |
| Bard, in Rheims | 15 |
| French bards | 12 |
| Well-versed woman? | 18 |
| Meter maid? | 11 |
| Anne Bradstreet, for one | 24 |
| Sara Teasdale, e.g. | 19 |
| Sappho for one | 15 |
| Outmoded word for Millay | 24 |
| Mistral or Moore | 16 |
| Millay, to a sexist | 19 |
| Millay, for one | 15 |
| Millay or Plath | 15 |
| Millay or Dickinson | 19 |
| Lowell or Dickinson | 19 |
| Iamb woman? | 11 |
| Female versifier | 16 |
| Dickinson, Plath or Millay | 26 |
| Dickinson or Millay | 19 |
| Any of the Brontë sisters | 28 |
| Anne Bradstreet, e.g. | 21 |
| Amy Lowell or H.D., formerly | 28 |
| Dante e Boccaccio | 17 |
| Horace's "Ars ___" | 32 |
| Virgil's writings | 21 |
| Horace's "Ars __" | 31 |
| Foot fetish? | 12 |
| Using high-flown language | 25 |
| Like Donne's works | 22 |
| Like Byron's words | 22 |
| Idealized | 9 |
| Fancifully worded | 17 |
| Versifier's condition? | 26 |
| O. J. Simpson as a bard? | 24 |
| Being hoist with one's own petard | 37 |
| Sometimes ironic reward or punishment | 37 |
| Ironic outcome | 14 |
| Comeuppance for Shakespeare? | 28 |
| A Pulitzer Prize winner in Letters: 1980 | 40 |
| Artistic latitude | 17 |
| What a parked laureate feeds? | 29 |
| Poe treatise | 12 |
| Study of verse | 14 |
| Treatise by Aristotle | 21 |
| Study of verse writing | 22 |
| Study of prosody | 16 |
| Speaking poetically | 19 |
| Aristotle work | 14 |
| "A ___ man speaking to men": Wordsworth | 49 |
| Writes verse | 12 |
| Will Rogers? | 12 |
| Will Rogers's humorous self-description | 43 |
| Bard's annoyance? | 21 |
| O! Baked treat! Warm and nourishing to eat!? | 44 |
| OR TYPE | 7 |
| Metaphor for kinetic grace ... or what this puzzle's six eight-letter answers display? | 90 |
| Recitation competition | 22 |
| "Interested in verse? You should read 'The Bells'"? | 69 |
| One who is bad to verse? | 24 |
| Home to busts of Blake and Burns | 32 |
| Wordsworth and Tennyson, e.g. | 29 |
| On second thought, make it an inspirational film: "The Evil Dead..." | 78 |
| Fast commuter train owned by the red Teletubby? | 47 |
| Ace? | 4 |
| Hopped around on a stick | 24 |
| Jumps up and down, perhaps | 26 |
| Hops in place | 13 |
| Dances to punk rock, perhaps | 28 |
| Dances by jumping up and down | 29 |
| Comic-strip animal and others | 29 |
| Bounces on a stick | 18 |
| Cartoon possum's corporate symbol? | 38 |
| Bouncing toys | 13 |
| 1990s collectibles | 18 |
| Game discs | 10 |
| Faddish 90's collectibles | 29 |
| Faddish 1990s collectibles | 26 |
| Collectible discs popular in the 1990's | 43 |
| Collectible discs of the 1990s | 30 |
| Collectible caps | 16 |
| 1990s fad with milk bottle caps | 31 |
| '90s fad | 12 |
| "Red Roses for Me" group (with "The") | 57 |
| ___ Strait, Yellow Sea arm | 26 |
| South Korean industrial city | 28 |
| Scoffers' words | 19 |
| Bahs' kin | 13 |
| Ability to make a lasting impression | 36 |
| Emotionally moving | 18 |
| Keenly distressing | 18 |
| Shaggy: Fr. | 11 |
| W. W. I soldiers | 16 |
| Heroes of W. W. I | 17 |