| OMARKHAYYAM | "The Rubaiyat of ... ...", 1859 translation of 12th Century Persian poems by Edward Fitzgerald (4,7) |
| RUBAIYAT | 'The -- Of Omar Khayyam', 1859 translation of 12th-century Persian poems by Edward Fitzgerald (8) |
| THEMOVINGFINGERWRITES | First words in verse 51 of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
| LAYLA | 1971 rock classic inspired by a 12th-century Persian poem |
| OMAR | Classic of Persian poetry, The Rubaiyat Of ... Khayyam |
| RUBAIYATOFOMARKHAYYAM | 1859 translation of 12th-century Persian quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald |
| RUBAIYATOF | 1859 translation of 12th-century Persian quatrains by Edward Fitzgerald (8,2,4,7) |
| SILENTNIGHT | Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? |
| EUCALYPT | An anthology of Persian quatrains of a type made famous in English by Edward FitzGerald (8) |
| KHAYYAM | Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer (c. 1048-1131) whose Rubaiyat (quatrains) were translated into English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 (4,7) |
| ZEN | Japanese school of Buddhism of 12th-century Chinese origin (3) |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| DARWIN | Charles ?, author of 1859 scientific work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (6) |
| TENNIS | Sport that has its origins in the game of jeudepaume of 12th- and 13th-century France (6) |
| FITZGERALD | Poet best known for his translation of Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (10) |
| OWL | Companion of the pussy-cat in a poem by Edward Lear (3) |
| MEREDITH | George ___, author of 1859 novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (8) |
| SWAT | 'The Akond of -', nonsense poem by Edward Lear (4) |
| AKOND | The ___ of Swat, nonsense poem by Edward Lear |
| PUSSYCAT | The Owl and the ___, poem by Edward Lear (8) |
