| BEASTIE | "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous ----" (To A Mouse) (7) |
| MOUSE | What is the "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" in a Robert Burns poem? (5) |
| TOAMOUSE | Burns poem that starts, "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" |
| TOA | Robert Burns poem, ... Mouse (the 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie') (2,1) |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| DOGSTAR | Lassie or Rin Tin Tin, e.g. |
| MOOSE | Is this North American deer a wee sleekit creature? (5) |
| CANINES | Lassie and Rin Tin Tin |
| ODE | Poem "To a Mouse" or "To a Skylark" |
| THRAVE | "A daimen icker in a ----", from To A Mouse (6) |
| ODES | "To a Mouse" and "To a Louse" |
| WEE | Like Burns's tim'rous beastie |
| BIGGER | Like a man, compared to a mouse |
| TRACKPAD | A static alternative to a mouse |
| SMA | "'S a ___ request": "To a Mouse" |
| RAT | Animal that looks similar to a mouse |
| VOLE | Small rodent, similar to a mouse, common in fields and meadows (4) |
| BURNSCALORIES | Food energy used by the poet who wrote "To a Mouse"? |
| CATTY | Spiteful like it smells to a mouse (5) |
| POEM | "The Raven" or "To a Mouse" |
