| LYKEWAKE | & 18D Traditional English song set to music by Benjamin Britten in his 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (4-4,5) |
| DIRGE | Traditional English song set to music by Benjamin Britten in his 1943 Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (4-4,5) |
| PROUDSONGSTERS | Thomas Hardy poem about thrushes, in a cycle set to music by Benjamin Britten |
| VOW | I ___ to Thee, My Country, English song set to a Holst tune (3) |
| BRAIN | Surname of a famous English horn player to whom Benjamin Britten dedicated his Serenade for tenor, horn and strings (5) |
| TENNYSON | Poet whose The Splendour Falls or "Blow, Bugle, Blow" forms the setting of the nocturne in Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (8) |
| NIGHTMAIL | 1936 documentary film featuring a poem by W H Auden and music by Benjamin Britten |
| BRITANNIA | Rule, - - -!, patriotic song set to music by Thomas Arne in 1740 (9) |
| FAR | "Over the Hills and ___ Away" (traditional English song) |
| BALLADOPERA | Genre of English stage entertainment originating in the 18th century consisting of racy and satirical songs set to popular tunes |
| GREENSLEEVES | Traditional English song |
| LINDEN | Collett 'Hall' 5984, with 'Lea' famous traditional English song (6) |
| THISIS | Irving Berlin sang his 1943 song, "... the army, Mr Jones; No private rooms or telephones; You had your breakfast in bed before; But you won't have it there anymore" (4,2) |
| PALGRAVE | Sir Francis ___, historian born in 1788 whose son published the influential Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics in 1861 (8) |
| DANNYBOY | Traditional Irish song set to the tune 'Londonderry Air' (5,3) |
| SURFINUSA | Beach Boys song set to the tune of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" |
| IRELAND | Composer close to Britten in sound |
| JEANANOUILH | French dramatist known for his 1943 play Antigone (4,7) |
| BAUDELAIRE | University invested in poor English song penned by the French poet (10) |
| FINETUNE | Improve subtly end in French and English song (4,4) |
