| BEASTIE | "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous ________ ..." (Burns) |
| TOAMOUSE | Burns poem that starts, "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" |
| MOUSE | Robert Burns's "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie" (5) |
| TOA | Robert Burns poem, ... Mouse (the 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie') (2,1) |
| WEE | Like Burns's "tim'rous beastie" |
| MOOSE | Is this North American deer a wee sleekit creature? (5) |
| ALITTLELEARNING | Pope called it "dang'rous" |
| 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) |
| KING | Male dragonfly; highest-ranking face card; large bed; or, any of the male monarchs described in John Rous' Historia Regum Angliae (4) |
| BRAES | "... among the green ___": Burns |
| SMA | "...dancin here/Wi' great an' ___": Burns |
| AGLEE | "...mice and men gang aft ___": Burns |
| AFTON | "Flow gently, sweet ___": Burns |
| GLEY | "Gang aft a-___": Burns |
| ARED | "O, my Luve is like ___...": Burns |
| HAE | "Scots Wha ___" (Burns poem) |
| ATHAT | "The main's the gowd for ___": Burns |
| ALASS | "Then hey for ___...": Burns |
| ROME | Woollcott's 'While ___ Burns' |
| KEN | ___ Burns effect (film technique) |
