Crossword Clue:

a magician one who is skilled in magic

AnswerCrossword Clue
LIEROne who is in a horizontal position
COWARDSEach of them is "one who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs": Bierce
EDWARDLEARThere once was an author from Britain - Who laughed at the poems he'd written - "Five lines to a verse - Is so very terse - I can finish 'em up in one sittin'."