| PLATH | "I shut my eyes and all drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again." This American poet is perhaps best known for her novel The Bell Jar. |
| NEED | "When I ___ you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you" |
| REINCARNATION | The belief that on the death of the body the soul is born again in another body (13) |
| ATOUCHOFFROST | A smidgen of this American poet might give them goosebumps |
| BETTYMARTIN | 'All my eye and --'; a phrase originating in the 1700s meaning rubbish or humbug (5,6) |
| POSTHUMOUSLY | Somehow shut my pools, about 2nd June - after I've gone (12) |
| ISTHATAFACT | "Well, shut my mouth!" |
| ADLIB | Unprepared -- and all is oddly British (2-3) |
| OILLAMP | 10 pm and all is shattered by a hurricane (3,4) |
| THEGAMEISUP | The beaters have done their work, and all is revealed |
| DOLLARGAP | All drop round while Georgia is inside as imports exceed exports there and elsewhere (6,3) |
| POLLARD | All drop out with Hi-de-hi! star Su (7) |
| TEMPESTTOST | *"Send these, the homeless, ___ to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" (last lines of "The |
| THAI | I lift my hat to someone from Asia (4) |
| DILIGENT | An industrious little gentleman I lift my lid to (8) |
| LAMP | Statue of Liberty: "I lift my ___ beside the golden door" |
| WILD | "She took me to her elfin grot, And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, And there I shut her - - eyes With kisses four." Keats, La Belle Dame Sans Merci (4) |
| RAISE | I have ears and I lift them (5) |
| PSALM | "I lift up my eyes to the mountains" reading |
| STRESSED | It must be said time and time again, this has already been highlighted (8) |
