Complete Clue List
Across
1. With 1 Down, author of 'Suicide in the Trenches'
6. Inspiration for Robert the Bruce in both poem and prose: A spider's ____
8. Surname of poet (1895-1915) who wrote: 'All the hills and vales along, ...'
9. Title of poem beginning: 'If I should die, Think only this of me', 'The ______'
11. '______ et Decorum Est'
12. '____ little towns in a far land we came, ...'
13. Place of respite for WWII poet Keith Douglas? (1920-1944)
16. WWII poet Sidney _____ (1922-1943) who wrote 'The Foreign Gate' and 'War Poet'
18. First name of 8 Across
20. Last line of John Pudney's 'For Johnny': 'And see his children ___.'
22. Nationality of poet (1872-1918) who wrote 3 Down
24. That which caused 'An ecstasy of fumbling'
25. 'But young men think it is,
____ we were young.' (Housman, 'Here Dead We Lie')
27. Poem that begins 'He's gone, and all our plans Are useless indeed.': '__ His Love'
28. 'Before the hills in order stood, Or earth received her ____' ('O God Our Help in Ages Past', hymn)
31. 'Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ___ dry.' (Owen, 'Disabled')
32. Part I of Henry Reed's 'Lessons of the War': '______ of Parts'
34. 'Dull porters watched them, and a casual _____ Stood staring hard...' (Owen, 'The Send-Off'
36. '...clumsy legs, High booted sprawled and grovelled along the ____...' (Sassoon, 'Counter-Attack')
38. Poet (1888-1915) who wrote 'Into Battle': Julian ________
Down
1. With 1 Across, poet who survived the Great War, and wrote prose as well
2. 'Futility', last line: 'To break ______ sleep at all?'
3. Where poppies grow: 'In Flanders ______'
4. 'Anthem for ______ Youth'
5. Author of 'A Moment of War' as well as prose set in the Spanish Civil War: Laurie ____
6. First name of poet (1893-1918) who wrote 'Futility'
7. Surname of author (1887-1915) of 9 Across
10. 'They shall grow not ___, as we that are left grow ___...'
14. First name of poet (1890-1918) who wrote 'Break of Day in the Trenches'
15. Surname of poet who wrote 'The Zonnebeke Road'
16. '...ashen-grey,
Masks of the lads who once were ____ and kind and gay?'
17. From 'The Dead': '...and those who would have been,
Their ____, they gave, their immortality.'
18. John ______ (1915-1936), who wrote 'A Letter from Aragon'
19. 'The sand of the desert is _____ red,' (Newbolt, 'Vitai Lampada')
21. From 3 Down: '... Short days ___ We lived, felt dawn, ...'
23. 'An Irish _____ Foresees His Death' by W.B. Yeats
26. Title for author of 3 Down (abbrev.)
27. '____ fury of wills in wrestle locked...' (Binyon, 'Men of Verdun')
29. 'Some quick to ___, some for adventure...' (Pound, 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley')
30. 'They gave them new Bibles..., Compasses, ____, and committed the lot.' (Simpson, 'The Heroes')
33. 'Oh, Hedy Lamarr is a beautiful ____...' (T/Sgt Robert H. Bryson, 'An Escort of P-38s')
35. Initials of poet who wrote 'The Silent One'
37. Initials of poet who wrote 'MCMXIV'