| REDREDROSE | "O my Luve's like a ___" (Robert Burns) * (10) |
| BURNS | Poet who wrote 'O, my luve's like a red, red rose...' (5) |
| SIMILES | "My Luve's like a red red rose" and others |
| THIEF | "It Takes a ___" (Robert Wagner series) |
| TOMB | "Take away love and our earth is a ___": Robert Browning (4) |
| ARED | "O my Luve's like ___, red rose..." (Robert Burns) |
| FINGERLING | A salmon/trout parr or other fish no bigger than one's pinkie; a small digit-shaped potato; or, a diminutive being, aka a hop-o'-my-thumb (10) |
| MISOGYNIST | O my, is Sting another sexist? (10) |
| OVERMYHEAD | O, my, he'd rave madly, which would be quite beyond me (4,2,4) |
| MORN | "O May, Thy ___" (Robert Burns song) |
| BEASTIE | 'Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous ___' (Robert Burns 'To a Mouse', 1785) (7) |
| SYNE | "Auld Lang ___" (Robert Burns song) |
| LABOUR | "Dare to be honest and fear no ___": Robert Burns (6) |
| WWWW | 'O, my Luve is like ___...' |
| CHERRYTOMATO | O my! The carrot, surprisingly: technically a fruit! (6,6) |
| OGEE | O my goodness! Such a curve! (4) |
| DEUTERON | What's missing from book? O my, a tiny bit (8) |
| OGRE | In Hop-o'-My-Thumb, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty and the perhaps lesser known The Enchanted Doe, a man-eating giant, as originally imagined by Charles Perrault (4) |
| BOSOM | "...the ___ of Abraham" ("Rock O' My Soul") |
| HARMONICATS | "Peg o' My Heart" hitmakers, 1947 |
