Possible Clues:

• ___ Thomas, Welsh poet
• 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' songwriter
• Blanchett role (sort of) in a 2007 movie
• 'Chimes of Freedom' songwriter
• Great Welsh poet . . . . . Thomas
• 'I'm Not There.' subject
• "John Wesley Harding" singer Bob
• Musical legend Bob
• Bob ---, or --- Thomas
• The writer Thomas Hardy languishes, greatly diminished