| EYE | "Cast a cold .../ On life, on death / Horseman, pass by" (gravestone of W B Yeats) (3) |
| VEST | Garment hidden by gravestone |
| YEATS | His epitaph famously reads "Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death. /Horseman, pass by!" |
| CASTA | WB Yeats' epitaph: "___ _ cold eye on life, on death. Horseman pass by". (4,1) |
| PASSBY | "Cast a cold eye / On life, on death / Horseman ... ... (WB Yeats) (4,2) |
| HORSEMAN | WB Yeats" epitaph: "Cast a cold eye on life, on death. ___, pass by". (8) |
| HUD | Film based on the Larry McMurtry novel "Horseman, Pass By" |
| ODE | Work by Horace primarily on death etc. (3) |
| BEN | LOVER OF CIARA IS CURRENTLY ON DEATH ROW (DAYS) |
| AUDEN | Poet who wrote, "Poetry makes nothing happen" in his poem about a poet, "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" |
| DRY | Like conditions on "death valley days" |
| OISIN | The Wanderings of --, a long narrative poem by W.B. Yeats (5) |
| SLIGO | Irish port with a statue of W. B. Yeats |
| CAP | International's dad getting cold on the way back (3) |
| THETOWER | 1928 volume of poetry by W B Yeats (3,5) |
| STAIR | The Winding -; collection of poems by W. B. Yeats, first published in 1933 (5) |
| APPLES | "The silver ... of the moon, / The golden ... of the sun" (W B Yeats) (6) |
| DEIRDRE | - of the Sorrows; J. M. Synge play, completed by W. B. Yeats (7) |
| THEROSETREE | Poem by W B Yeats describing a fictional conversation between the Easter Rising leaders James Connolly and Padraig Pearse |
| INNISFREE | The Lake Isle of -, (W. B. Yeats) |