| DOUBTLESS | "... I could not have perceived the universe, or written one of my poems, if I had not freely given |
| DRUNKARD | "If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class ___": Ernest Shackleton (8) |
| THEMOUSETRAP | These people overlooking river mouth have perceived a long runner (3,9) |
| PAROLE | Promise not freely given |
| ODES | With modesty, I display my poems (4) |
| MODESTY | My poems, the first included, show humility (7) |
| TRIUMPH | The other 'impostor' with Disaster in the poem If by English writer Rudyard Kipling (7) |
| VERSIFIER | One can produce short poem if that is required initially |
| KIPL | Who wrote the poem If-? (7) |
| ELEANOR | Roosevelt who said "I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on" |
| ESCHATOLOGY | Branch of theology that is concerned with the ultimate destiny of the universe or mankind (11) |
| MRDARCY | To whom it is said, "I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry" |
| CREATION | Word for an artwork, concept, composition, invention, the universe or world, brought into existence or apparently "formed out of nothing" (8) |
| ANACHRONISM | The representation of a person or thing in a historical context in which it could not have existed (11) |
| LIST | Enumeration of words written one after the other in a glossary, lexicon or index, for example (4) |
| ALIBI | (law) A defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question. |
| ANACHRONISMS | Representations of people or things in historical contexts in which they could not have existed (12) |
| FLASH | Saviour of the Universe or Barry Allen? (5) |
| COSMOS | The world or universe; or, a plant with pink or white dahlialike flowers in summer (6) |
| WORLD | Word for Earth and its collective inhabitants that is extended to mean the universe or cosmos, society and public life (5) |
