| NOMAN | "___ ___ is an island entire of itself": quote from John Donne's 1624 poem Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3) |
| ISLAND | No man is an -; modernisation of a quote from John Donne's work in prose Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (6) |
| DONNE | "No man is an island, entire of itself" writer |
| NOMANIS | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| ANISLAND | Famous aphorism by English poet John Donne, in the 17th devotion, Meditation XVII, of the 1624 prose work Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (2,3,2,2,6) |
| NOMANISANISLAND | “---, entire of it self” (John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions) |
| THEREISNOFOOL | Part of a timely quote from John Hayword |
| EIN | "Ich bin ___ Berliner" (quote from John F. Kennedy shortly after the Berlin Wall went up) |
| IFOR | Q. "Do you know ___ '_ _' is an abbreviation for Oregon?" A. "I do, and, yes, it is." |
| DEATHBENOTPROUD | Opening words of John Donne's Sonnet X, by which it is also known (5,2,3,5) |
| ANGER | "_ _ _ _ _ is an energy", from Pil's "Rise" (5) |
| RICHELIEU | Cardinal ?, chief minister of Louis XIII of France from 1624-42 |
| JOHN | Whose 1624 prose work famously begins "No man is an island..'? (4,5) |
| CHRISTIANIA | Name by which Oslo was known from 1624 to 1877 in honour of the king who had it rebuilt (11) |
| RECRUDESCENT | Earthy smell from refuse tips is re-emergent (12) |
| MAN | No ___ is an island, saying (3) |
| AUBADES | Poems/songs usually about lovers parting at dawn such as John Donne's The Sun Rising but with exceptions such as one written by Philip Larkin (7) |
| ACCITED | Quoted, in John Donne's days |
| OSLO | City in the Great Fire of 1624 |
| NEWAMSTERDAM | Dutch settlement of 1624 |
