Clues for the word "POET"
We've had 347 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 648 times in crosswords. It was last seen in LA Times crossword on November 21, 2025.
Definition of poet
- n. - One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
Referring Clues
- Pound, e.g.
- Keats, for one
- "Painter of the soul": D'Israeli
- Shakespeare, e.g.
- Versifier
- 58-Across, e.g.
- Rhymer
- Sexton or Pope, e.g.
- Dickinson or Frost, e.g.
- Gwendolyn Brooks, e.g.
- One concerned with feet
- Verse writer
- Langston Hughes, e.g.
- One who works with feet
- O'Neill's "A Touch of the ___"
- Shelley, for one
- One with idyll musings?
- Coffeehouse performer
- Sonneteer
- Sexton, say
- Laureate figure, maybe
- Sappho, e.g.
- Meter reader?
- Linesman, maybe?
- Frost or Burns
- Lay man?
- Limerick writer, say
- Yeats or Keats
- Eliot or Frost
- "Every man will be a ___ if he can": Thoreau
- One who handles stress effectively?
- Foot specialist?
- Foot specialist
- Lay person?
- Coleridge, for one
- Sonneteer, e.g.
- Rhyme writer
- Burns or Browning
- Meter man?
- "You're a ___ and don't know it"
- Lyricist, essentially
- Coffeehouse attraction, maybe
- Bard
- Lord Byron or Lord Tennyson
- Robert Browning, for one
- Walt Whitman, for one
- Walt Whitman, e.g.
- Robert Frost, for one
- Robert Pinsky or e. e. cummings
- Rhymester
- Browning of pages of verse, for example
- Haiku author
- One putting one's feet together?
- Donne or Bradstreet
- Slam participant
- Dante or Dickinson
- One well-versed in words' worth
- "I'm a ___ and don't know it!"
- Keats or Yeats
- Couplet creator
- Meter master
- Virgil, for one
- Burns, e.g.
- Slam competitor
- Limerick writer, e.g.
- Snug-bug connector?
- Writer of rhymes
- Frost, e.g.
- Burns or Byron
- One working with feet?
- One appealing to a meter reader?
- Pound, for one
- Frost, say
- 39-Across writer
- Pound, notably
- Ogden Nash, for one
- Spender, for one
- Donne, for one
- One working with feet
- Coffeehouse entertainer
- Odist, for one
- Writer of 11 Down
- Frost or Pound
- Blake or Burns
- Verse's author
- Coffeehouse reader, perhaps
- Rap composer, in a way
- One concerned with rhythm and feet
- Langston Hughes, for one
- Tennyson, for one
- Artist with words
- Richard Purdy Wilbur, e.g.
- Pentameter pro
- Pablo Neruda, e.g.
- One concerned with feet and rhythm
- Timotheus or Phrynichus, e.g.
- Sarton or Burns
- One with rhythm
- Frost, for one
- Metrist, sometimes
- One inspired by Calliope
- Imagist
- Sonnet creator
- Sonnet writer
- Whitman or Whittier
- Wordsworth, for one
- Donne or Pound, e.g.
- One who works in feet and meters
- Sexton or Burns, e.g.
- One with stressing work?
- Ezra Pound's profession
- W.H. Auden or E.E. Cummings
- Limerick writer
- Foot massager?
- Byron or Burns
- Chaucer or Milton
- Person creating rhymes
- One inspired by Erato
- One working with feet professionally
- One who works in feet
- Bard or minstrel
- Ballad writer
- Keats or Byron
- Allen Ginsberg or Jack Kerouac
- Verse creator
- Verse expert
- Skilled wordsmith
- Shakespeare or Shelley
- Doggerelist, e.g.
- Robert Frost, e.g.
- Keats, e.g.
- Idyllist, e.g.
- Rhyme user
- Job involving stress
- Foot massage expert?
- ___ laureate
- One writing verse
- Whitman, e.g.
- Annie Finch or Rita Dove
- Verse maker
- Worker with a lot of stress?
- Coffeehouse reader
- Auden or Aiken
- 107 Down, for one
- Coffeehouse entertainer, sometimes
- Certain laureate
- Donne or Rimbaud, e.g.
- Robert Service
- Lorna Crozier
- Baudelaire or Rimbaud, e.g.
- Recital artist
- Pablo Neruda, for one
- Shelley, e.g.
- One published in a literary magazine, perhaps
- Haiku maker
- Kipling or Keats
- cummings, for one
- One who deals with stress well?
- Natasha Trethewey, for one
- "God is the perfect ___": Browning
- Doe, e.g.
- Imaginative writer
- Emily Dickinson, e.g.
- Writer of 12-Down
- One who might go from bed to verse
- Browning or Kipling
- Expert on feet?
- T.S. Eliot or e.e. cummings
- Byron, e.g.
- One seeking money for a meter?
- Rhyme creator
- Ode composer
- Master of rhymes
- Pound or Pope
- Rhyme master
- 28-Across, e.g.
- Prior or Pope
- Writer of verses
- One concerned with foot placement
- Well-versed one?
- One concerned with rhythm
- Writer of verse
- Orpheus, for one
- Poe or Browning
- Dealer in 15-Across
- Yearly Library of Congress appointee
- Odist, e.g.
- Keats or Tennyson
- Epic creator
- Master rhymer
- Odist, for instance
- "Always be a ___, even in prose": Baudelaire
- Virgil, e.g.
- Coffeehouse reciter
- Recital VIP
- Burns or Sexton, e.g.
- Pound, but not ounce
- Well-versed artist?
- Meter user
- Donne, e.g.
- 14-Across, for one
- Stanza writer
- Certain Pulitzer Prize recipient
- Writer of flowery verses
- Homer and such
- Brooke or Brooks
- Expert on meters and feet
- One who works with meters and feet
- Browning, e.g.
- Slam artist
- Lyricist's kin
- Dickinson, e.g.
- Author of rhymes
- Rhyming verse writer
- Longfellow, e.g.
- Ferlinghetti, notably
- Worker of rhymes
- Jim Morrison, e.g.
- "Roses are red" speaker
- Rhyming writer
- Burns or Frost
- Dylan, for one
- Morrissey "Sister I'm a ___"
- Lyricist, often
- US author Frost ultimately - this?
- Fit clothes round anything put across here?
- Writer such as Ogden Nash
- Maybe I'm one and don't know it
- He's no peasant!
- He writes beautifully
- Dickinson or Dove
- Sexton, e.g.
- 28 11 e.g. keeps key in jar
- Cocktail of drugs for liner
- Coffee shop open-mike performer, perhaps
- 67 Down, e.g.
- Metrist, perhaps
- Master of allusion?
- Foot man?
- Pound or Moore, e.g.
- Spenser or Spender
- Maya Angelou, e.g.
- 31-Across, e.g.
- Blake or Byron
- Keats or Browning
- Verse pro
- Person who writes rhymes
- Writer whose mission/Is rhymed composition
- Minstrel, e.g.
- Reader at an open mic
- Any limerick writer
- Haiku writer, say
- Reader at a slam
- Frost or Browning
- Writer has time for another
- 35-Across writer
- Rhythmic versifier
- Rondeau writer
- Nightingale, per Shelley
- Maya Angelou, for one
- Coffee shop entertainer
- Allen Ginsberg, for one
- Competitor in a slam
- Rhymer at a coffeehouse
- Writer of odes
- Mary Oliver, e.g.
- Thomas or Milton
- Auden, Blake or Coleridge
- Shelley's "nightingale"
- Browning or Burns
- Person creating verses
- Many a Pulitzer winner
- Shakespeare or Pound
- Dickey or Dickinson
- Bard's sweetheart with a hidden love
- "Every great architect is ... a great ___": Wright
- Office to which John Dryden was appointed in 1668
- Audre Lorde or Lord Byron
- Rap writer, e.g.
- Foot expert?
- Rap composer, e.g.
- Lyricist
- 34-Across, e.g.
- Homer, for one
- Sandburg, e.g.
- Frost or Nash
- Meter man?
- Writer of potent pieces
- Wordsworth or Whitman
- Gwendolyn Brooks or Ocean Vuong
- "A nightingale who sits in darkness," per Shelley
- Reciter at a slam
- Person who writes verses
- One who's well-versed in the arts?
- Browning but not cooking
- Frost or Keats, e.g.
- Angelou or Dickinson
- Competitor in a verbal slam
- Ocean Vuong, for example
- Writer of rhyming lines
- Adrienne Rich or Nikki Giovanni
- "God is the perfect ___": Robert Browning
- Joy Harjo, for one
- Amanda Gorman, e.g.
- Cameron Awkward-Rich, for example
- Maker of clever rhymes
- Sappho or Pindar
- Amanda Gorman or Maya Angelou
- Khadijah Queen, for one
- Rita Dove or Rita Joe
- Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, for one
- Writer of odes or tanka
- Wendy Chen, for example
- Sharon Olds, e.g.
- Jenny Zhang, for example
- Sarah Kay, for example
- Gwen Nell Westerman, for one
- Bard with rhymes
- One who's well-versed
- Writer of 2-Down
- Stress specialist?
- Performer at a slam
- Amanda Gorman, for one
- Meter reader?
- Creator of rhymes
- Keats, Browning, etc.
- Artist using line breaks
- Ada Limón, for one
- Ariana Brown or Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Writer such as Nima Yooshij
- Ode creator
- Ada Limón, e.g.
- Audre Lorde, e.g.
- Eliot or Auden
- 3-Down, for one
- Versin' person?
- Shel Silverstein or A.A. Milne
- Literary magazine contributor, perhaps
- Frost or Keats
- Writer such as Mahmoud Darwish
- Philip Larkin or Patricia Lockwood
- Rupi Kaur, for one
- Writer such as Alice Oswald
- 68-Across, for one
- Expert who works with both feet and meters?
- Troubadour, e.g.
- Sonia Sanchez, for one
Last Seen In
- LA Times - November 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 16, 2025
- New York Times - October 23, 2025
- LA Times - October 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - October 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 29, 2025
- New York Times - September 27, 2025
- Mirror Daily - September 12, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 29, 2025
- Daily American - August 24, 2025
- LA Times - August 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - July 29, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 19, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 21, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - June 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - June 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 02, 2025
- Daily American - June 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 11, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 04, 2025
- LA Times - April 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 19, 2025
- Family Time - March 16, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 10, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 23, 2025
- New York Times - January 22, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - January 07, 2025
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