| INNISFREE | "Lake isle" in the title of a celebrated WB Yeats poem |
| SWANS | The Wild ___ at Coole: WB Yeats poem. (5) |
| OPENING | A process of unwrapping a festive gift, perhaps secretly praying it's a pup; the birth of a celebrated season; the premiere of a Christmas pantomime run; or, ripping off the lid and filling one's cup, |
| EIGG | One of the Small Isles in the Scottish Inner Hebrides, to the south of the Isle of Skye |
| LEDA | Title partner of "the Swan" in a Yeats poem |
| HAMPTON | - Court; site of a celebrated maze and the Great Vine, Henry VIII's pleasure palace taken from Cardinal Wolsey that boasted the largest kitchens in Tudor England (7) |
| LERWICK | Northernmost town of the British Isles, in the Shetlands on the island of Mainland (7) |
| EMPTIED | "Let the Irish vessel lie / ____ of its poetry" (In Memory of WB Yeats, WH Auden) |
| DELIGHT | "A lonely impulse of ... / Drove to this tumult in the clouds" (WB Yeats) |
| GARDAI | Lake Isle police in home of Yeats |
| CHEAPYEATS | Affordable copy of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"? |
| YEATS | Irish poet of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" |
| ENG | Half of a celebrated set of twins |
| ISLE | 1888 W.b. yeats poem, The lake ___ of Innisfree |
| ERIN | Emerald Isle in The Lord of the Rings (4) |
| TASMANSEA | A small isle's in the drink, or one part of it (6,3) |
| ARAN | ___ Islands, group of three isles in the Atlantic off the Republic of Ireland (4) |
| MICH | The smallest of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides (4) |
| RUM | The largest of the Small Isles in the Inner Hebrides (3) |
| GILL | On which lough is Yeats" Lake Isle Of Innisfree? (4) |
