| Limerick writer, say | 20 |
| Lay person? | 11 |
| Lay man? | 8 |
| Lay composer | 12 |
| Laureate figure, maybe | 22 |
| Kipling or Keats | 16 |
| John Ciardi is one | 18 |
| Imagist | 7 |
| Idyllist, e.g. | 14 |
| Idyllist | 8 |
| Idyll maker | 11 |
| Howard Nemerov, e.g. | 20 |
| His output is verse and verse | 29 |
| Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g. | 22 |
| Guest or Frost | 14 |
| Greeting card employee, at times | 32 |
| Gray or Greene | 14 |
| Frost with rime? | 16 |
| Frost or Winters | 16 |
| Frost or Snow | 13 |
| Frost or Millay | 15 |
| Frost or Field | 14 |
| Frost e.g. | 11 |
| Foot specialist | 15 |
| Foot massage expert? | 20 |
| Foot man? | 9 |
| Emily Dickinson, e.g. | 21 |
| Elegist or odist | 16 |
| Dylan, for one | 14 |
| Dowson was one | 14 |
| Doe, e.g. | 9 |
| Dickinson or Frost, e.g. | 24 |
| Dickey or Wilbur | 16 |
| Dante or Dickinson | 18 |
| cummings, for one | 17 |
| Cummings, e.g. | 14 |
| Countee Cullen was one | 22 |
| Coleridge, for one | 18 |
| Coffeehouse reader, perhaps | 27 |
| Coffeehouse entertainer, sometimes | 34 |
| Coffeehouse entertainer, perhaps | 32 |
| Chaucer or Milton | 17 |
| Certain laureate | 16 |
| Byron, e.g. | 11 |
| Byron or Burns | 14 |
| Bukowski, for one | 17 |
| Browning, e.g. | 14 |
| Brooke or Field | 15 |
| Auden, e.g. | 11 |
| Auden or Aiken | 14 |
| Arnold or Milton | 16 |
| Any of three Lowells | 20 |
| Annie Finch or Rita Dove | 24 |
| Amy Lowell was one | 18 |
| Alan Seeger, e.g. | 17 |
| "You're a ___ and don't know it" | 50 |
| "Painter of the soul": D'Israeli | 46 |
| "I'm a ___ and don't know it!" | 48 |
| "God is the perfect ___": Browning | 44 |
| "Every man will be a ___ if he can": Thoreau | 54 |
| "A Touch of the ___" | 30 |
| "___ and Peasant" | 27 |
| Kind of license | 15 |
| One way to wax | 14 |
| Kind of license or justice | 26 |
| Like some justice | 17 |
| Like Shelley's works | 24 |
| Like Shakespeare | 16 |
| Kind of justice or license | 26 |
| Burnsian, e.g. | 14 |
| Written in quatrains, e.g. | 26 |
| Word with justice or license | 28 |
| Word before license or justice | 30 |
| Type of license or justice | 26 |
| Type of justice | 15 |
| Not prosaic? | 12 |
| Like works of Kipling and Browning | 34 |
| Like Lovelace's lines | 25 |
| Like Frost's works | 22 |
| Like e'en or e'er | 25 |
| Kind of license? | 16 |
| Janet/Tupac movie "___ Justice" | 41 |
| It may precede "license" | 34 |
| Idyllic, maybe | 14 |
| Graceful, in a way | 18 |
| Flowing off the page, maybe | 27 |
| Flowery, perhaps | 16 |
| Flowery, in a way | 17 |
| Elegantly expressed | 19 |
| Done like Donne | 15 |
| Adjective with license or justice | 33 |
| __ license | 10 |
| "Uncle Miltie/is not guilty," e.g.? | 45 |
| Court versifiers? | 17 |
| Official national verse writer | 30 |
| Bard's honor | 16 |
| Shelley's forte | 19 |
| Prose counterpart | 17 |
| Phoebe Snow's "--- Man" | 37 |
| Limericks and sonnets | 21 |