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Poet's Corner Crossword Puzzle

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Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey holds the graves and memorials to many of the British Empire's greatest writers (and a few other notable folk). This crossword is about some of these giants of the literary world.
Author: lorance79 - Diff: Harder

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      Across
      1. English critic and satirist; edited the Quarterly Review
      7. Author, "The Portrait of a Lady"
      11. Unusual
      12. Large kneeless ungulate (abbrev.)
      14. Process for sterilising milk (abbrev.)
      15. German car (abbrev.)
      16. North American nut, used in pie
      18. Minority ethnic group in China
      19. England's most celebrated writer
      23. Australian or Canadian territory (abbrev.)
      25. Extinct Hawaiian bird
      26. Provides entertainment to troops (abbrev.)
      27. Dylan Thomas: "____ against the dying of the light"
      28. Prefix of negation
      29. Chemical symbol for element with atomic number 93
      30. Walter Scott's title
      31. 2009 Regina Spektor song
      33. Popular national poet of Scotland
      39. French "the"
      40. 1907 Nobel laureate (first and last name)
      44. Suffix denoting philosophy or politics
      45. Premier English dictionary (init.)
      46. Italian river
      47. Chemical symbol for lead
      49. Author of "The Daffodils" (init.)
      51. Expenditure
      53. You, poetically
      54. Monty Python's knights say this
      55. Prefix denoting "new"
      56. 19 across protagonist: "To __ or not to __"
      58. Unwell
      59. Vital
      63. Chemical symbol of element 60
      65. Inanimate pronoun
      66. Lyrical verse
      67. First person interred in the abbey (first and last name)

      Down

      1. Support group for recovering gamblers (abbrev.)
      2. Victorian era actor, born John Henry Brodribb
      3. Not many
      4. 6 down frequently wrote about these poor children
      5. The mother of Zeus
      6. "Great Expectations" author
      7. Author and contemporary of 19 across: Ben ______
      8. Goddess of literary inspiration
      9. A spoken interjection
      10. _._. Coleridge (init.)
      11. 19th century English poet, "Porphyria's Lover" (first and last name)
      13. Scottish "no"
      17. (with 32 down) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans
      20. 18th Century poet Alexander ____
      21. Female author of romantic fiction and social commentary
      22. Muscle, tendon and nerve disorder common among computer users (abbrev.)
      24. Queen Victoria's Poet Laureate, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
      32. (with 17 down) Pen name of Mary Ann Evans
      34. Unitarian Universalism (abbrev.)
      35. Advised nutrition level (abbrev.)
      36. Dr Johnson, to his mother
      37. False god
      38. Neat
      41. Romantic poet; "Ode to a Nightingale"
      42. A record played at 33 1/3 rpm (abbrev.)
      43. Postal acronym
      48. Author of satirical poem "Hudibras"
      50. Irish writer Oscar
      52. Preposition indicating direction
      56. Pet name for wife of 11 down
      57. Printer's mark
      59. Before, poetically
      60. Latin adverb: thus
      61. Chief Olympic body (init.)
      62. One of the bases of DNA (abbrev.)
      64. _._. Handel (init.)