| SHALOTT | "The Lady of ___" (Tennyson poem in which "the mirror crack'd from side to side") |
| ORIANA | "The Ballad of ___" Tennyson poem |
| MARPLE | 'The Mirror Crack'd' sleuth |
| WAR | "The blood-red blossom of ___...": Tennyson |
| MIRROR | Our star's Agatha Christie movie: The - Crack'd |
| REVENGE | "The ___", Tennyson poem about Grenville's 1591 fight with the Spanish fleet in the Azores (7) |
| THEBAR | "Crossing ___" (Tennyson poem that was to be placed last in all editions of his works) |
| TRIOLET | Eight-line poem in which the first line repeats as the fourth and seventh and the second line repeats as the eighth (7) |
| LIGHTBRIGADE | The Charge of the ___, Tennyson poem (5,7) |
| TELESTICH | Poem in which the last letters of each line form a word or phrase |
| ACROSTIC | Poem in which the first letters of lines give a message (8) |
| COME | '___ the garden, ___' (Tennyson poem) (4,4,4) |
| INTO | '___ the garden, ___' (Tennyson poem) (4,4,4) |
| MAUD | '___ the garden, ___' (Tennyson poem) (4,4,4) |
| BEOWULF | Legendary hero, the title character of an Old English epic poem in which he aided King Hrothgar (7) |
| HEAVEN | The Lady Of _, current highly controversial film starring Denise Black and Albane Courtois (6) |
| EPODE | Type of lyric poem in which a long line is followed by a shorter one, invented by the 7th-century Greek poet Archilochus (5) |
| SATIRE | Meaning "poetic medley", the art of ridiculing through storytelling, defined by Dr Johnson as "a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured" (6) |
| RAGE | "Afro Puffs" rapper The Lady of ___ |
| PALINODE | Poem in which a writer retracts a view, sentiment etc. expressed in an earlier work (8) |