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Thanks rickye - Chinese (Taiwanese?) Potters are not my stong point!!

Try Googling Bernard + the first 5 letters. Letters 6, 7 &8 are the the local meadow.

Gem94, it's the last four letters that give you the meadow: see Chambers, which includes the plural form.

I liked the idea of the Chinese potter. Another definition of that part of the answer could have been, 'Scottish expression of surprise, as pronounced by West Highlander'.

I have a full grid, and have found 4 clashes. Only one arrangement leaves real words and since the clashes are some distance apart it's difficult to see how moving one entry could make real words from all entries unless that arrangement is the correct one. Alas, the name I come up with is a fictional one and I can't say it represents a would-be visionary. I also have no idea what sort of word to move and how to tell where to move it to. Gentle nudge(s) would be welcome to set me on the straight and narrow.

You are looking for a poet beginning with N. When u find the right poem all will be obvious

Can someone email me a copy please? I'm in Florence and can't find a copy of The Times anywhere. dev_iant (at) gmail (dot) com.

Thanks.

Escuan, "...an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his 'droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.' " - which leaves you wondering very hard about the rest of it... Don't forget this is the same nation that acclaimed John Updike as a brilliant writer...

...the initials are ON. Just google 21A with any of the possibilities you come up with for the surname.

Isn't there a thematic weakness in this puzzle? Three of the 'ensuing' lovely items are visible in the initial grid before lowering the thematic entry, so it didn't obscure them. That makes the seventh item that was mentioned earlier even more relevant since that was genuinely obscured, but it's clear that we have to ignore it (perhaps because the orientation is wrong).

Thank you, Rickye and Meursault. Of course when I re-read the preamble I realised I had been taking the letters remaining instead of those discarded. The subject is well known to me and is a favourite of mine regarding that particular genre.

dryden - three were already there, but as part of longer entries. After moving the thematic entry they are entries in their own right (ignoring spaces).