| PAST | "American Sonnets for My ___ and Future Assassin" (Terrance Hayes collection) |
| POSSESSING | Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my ___, / And like enough thou know'st thy estimate. / The charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; / My bonds in thee are all determinate. |
| POETS | Claudia Rankine and Terrance Hayes, e.g. |
| HED | "Sometimes the father almost sees looking / At the son, how handsome ___ be if half / His own face was made of the woman he loved": Terrance Hayes |
| SHAKESPEARE | The "father" of English Literature and prose. His plays often play with gender roles and leave room for queer interpretations. Wrote over half of his sonnets for "the fair youth." |
| POETRY | Author of The Raven to attempt sonnets, for example (6) |
| POEMS | Sonnets, for instance |
| CANADIANS | People from Ottawa (or South Park's Terrance & Phillip) |
| ONCE | 'The ___ and Future King' (T.H. White novel) |
| SHAM | Fall Out Boy "Champagne for My Real Friends, Real Pain for My ___ Friends" |
| REAL | "Champagne for my ___ friends, ___ pain for my sham friends" |
| SAKE | "... and he that loseth his life for my ___ shall find it" |
| COURSEWORK | 'I play golf with my buddies, so I should get an A for my ___' |
| TOES | "It starts in my ___ and I crinkle my nose" (Colbie Caillat lyric) |
| VERSEFORM | The sonnet, for example, can range through universe for material |
| NEXT | "And for my ___ trick ... " |
| AGEA | "I'm slow for my ___ late bloomer" (Clay Aiken line) |
| CLOSEUP | 'I'm ready for my ____', quotation from 1950 Hollywood black comedy Sunset Boulevard (5,2) |
| VALENTINE | Bullet For My _, Welsh heavy metal band (9) |
| ONE | "My ___ and only" ("my true love") |
