| READON | If poetry be the food of love.. (Continue? no, dear, to misquote Shakespeare!) (4,2) |
| SCAN | Of poetry, be metrically correct |
| MOGWAI | Scottish band whose tenth album, As the Love Continues, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart in 2021 |
| ORSINO | Duke of Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, who spoke the line "if music be the food of Love play on" (6) |
| IAMB | One-fifth of "If music be the food of love, play on" |
| MUSIC | "If - be the food of love, play on..." - the opening line in Twelfth Night (5) |
| PLAYON | "If music be the food of love, ___ ___": Duke of Orsino in Twelfth Night (4,2) |
| PLAYONWORDS | Pun in If music be the food of love, (what actor says) (4,2,5) |
| SHAKESPEARE | "If music be the food of love, play on." source |
| OFIT | 'If music be the food of love, play on,/Give me excess ___...': Shakespeare |
| SAVELOY | The food of love, say? (7) |
| ELECTRONICMUSIC | The food of love, perhaps with chips? (10,5) |
| DUCK | The food of love? (4) |
| APHRODISIAC | The food of love? |
| CHAMBERMUSIC | Room where the food of love is produced in classical style (7,5) |
| AMBROSIA | The food of the gods; the elixir of life (8) |
| NECTAR | What is said to be the food of the gods (6) |
| NECTARS | Which drinks are said to be the food of the gods (7) |
| LOVE | 'If music be the food of ___, play on' (Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1601) act 1, sc. 1, 1, 1) (4) |
| PLATO | "Knowledge is the food of the soul" speaker |
