| LITERATURE | Art of composition in prose and verse (10) |
| CONVERT | Change ending of composition in secret (7) |
| PENMANSHIP | A writer's cool, showing the art of composition (10) |
| DRAUGHTSMEN | Hum the grandest of compositions in old drawers (11) |
| WODWO | 1967 volume of prose and verse by Ted Hughes (5) |
| VITA | "La ___ Nuova" (prose-and-verse work by Dante) |
| PENCHANT | The art of composition; the skill of writing by hand; or, calligraphy (8) |
| PENCRAFT | Word for skill with calligraphy, chirography or other beautiful script handwritten with a nib, quill, stylograph etc; or, the art of composition (8) |
| MICROSCOPE | Composer, I fancy, accommodating start of composition ___ it affords close scrutiny (10) |
| RHAPSODIES | Ecstatic passages in prose I dash off (10) |
| ESSAY | Attempt / short composition in prose on a subject |
| POE | Writer of some prose and some poetry |
| VERBIAGE | What purple prose and technical jargon have in common |
| STANZA | Similar to a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song, a xed number of lines forming the building block of a poem (6) |
| EDDAS | Ancient "Prose" and "Poetic" works |
| LETTERS | Cultural prose and poetry |
| EDIT | Polish prose and Portugal |
| CONNECT | "Only ____ the prose and the passion" (EM Forster, Howards End) |
| CUPOKINDNESS | It appears in chorus and verse 2 of 38ac (3, 1 ,8) |
| OPUS | Any of the musical works of a composer numbered in order of composition |
