| NOMAN | "___ ___ is an island entire of itself..." - John Donne |
| ISLAND | "No man is an ..., entire of itself" (John Donne) |
| DONNE | "No man is an island, entire of itself" writer |
| IFOR | Q. "Do you know ___ '_ _' is an abbreviation for Oregon?" A. "I do, and, yes, it is." |
| ANGER | "_ _ _ _ _ is an energy", from Pil's "Rise" (5) |
| NOMANISANISLAND | Donne words before "entire of itself" |
| MAN | No ___ is an island, saying (3) |
| DESPAIR | '___ is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven': John Donne (7) |
| IZAAK | First name of the author of the fishing treatise The Compleat Angler who also wrote a short biography of his friend John Donne (5) |
| CHANGE | "___ is the nursery of music, joy, life, and eternity" - John Donne (6) |
| DEATHBENOTPROUD | Opening words of John Donne's Sonnet X, by which it is also known (5,2,3,5) |
| IFNOT | "Pleasure is none, ___ ___ diversified": John Donne (2,3) |
| ELEPHANT | 'Nature's great masterpiece, an ___; the only harmless great thing' - John Donne, 1612 (8) |
| STPAULS | London burial place of John Donne and Horatio Nelson |
| THEFLEA | John Donne poem featuring an insect |
| FLEA | Biting subject matter of a John Donne poem (4) |
| IFA | "___ clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less": John Donne |
| STAFF | Man an island? Not entire of itself! (5) |
| ANNE | "John Donne, ___ Donne, Undone" |
| 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) |