| QUATRAINS | Stanzas or poems of four lines, especially with alternate rhymes (9) |
| QUATRAIN | Stanza or poem of four lines, especially with alternate rhymes (8) |
| SPASMS | Word for convulsions, cramps, starts, tics, twitches or other sharp muscular contractions; thusly sudden bursts of activity, emotion or energy; or, jocular slang for stanzas or verses (6) |
| LYRICS | Expressing the writer's emotions, usually briefly and in stanzas or recognized forms |
| TIERS | Rows or lines especially for spectators in a stadium |
| OPISOMETER | Device for measuring the length of curved lines, especially on a map |
| LITTLEGIDDING | The fourth and final poem of Four Quartets by TS Eliot (6,7) |
| ERIKSATIE | Composer whose "Vexations" consists of four lines of music played 840 times |
| ACROSTICS | Puzzles or poems where the first letters of each line form words (9) |
| NOTORIOUS | Infamous - no time with alternate obligations (9) |
| LONGMETRE | A pattern for hymns where stanzas have four lines of eight syllables each (4,5) |
| TROPARION | In Greek religion, a stanza or short hymn (9) |
| INTERLARD | Mix with alternate layers of fat |
| PROGNOSIS | Farsi song or poem's kept back in expectation of complaint |
| CLERIHEWS | Whimsical, four-line biographical poems invented by Edmund Bentley (9) |
| MASEFIELD | John ---, English writer best known for his poems of the sea (9) |
| SEMAPHORE | Hear poems of gesture used to communicate (9) |
| TETRASTICH | In prosody, a stanza or other verse form consisting of four lines (10) |
| STUNTKITE | Flier that may have four lines |
| CREASE | Any of four lines on a cricket pitch such as the popping ...... or bowling ...... (6) |
