| FERE | 'Ballad of the Goodly ___' (Ezra Pound poem) |
| ERAT | "___ Hora" (Ezra Pound poem) |
| ALAMODE | Contemporary ending to Ezra Pound poem |
| ENNOBLE | Award in principle for Ezra Pound poem discovered in retirement |
| TREASURER | "...by the hand of Mithredath the ___..." (Ezra 1:8) |
| MACK | Written as part of Weill and Brecht's musical drama, The Threepenny Opera, was The Ballad Of ... The |
| EDNA | Real forename of "Nancy Boyd", who penned A Few Figs from Thistles and 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (4) |
| CASEYATTHEBAT | Poem subtitled "A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" |
| RAA | "The Ballad of the _ _ _" by current band The Rural Alberta Advantage |
| ALBEE | Edward ___, author of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (5) |
| ELIOT | Nicknamed "possum" by fellow poet Ezra Pound, the author of a series of "cat poems", written for his godchildren, that later formed the basis of a record-breaking musical (5) |
| CANTO | Section of a Pound poem |
| EAT | "... Zebaim, the children of ___" (Ezra 2:57) |
| FIGHTERS | This rock band's Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners was written to commemorate the men trapped for two weeks in the 2006 Tasmanian mine collapse, Foo ... |
| BAT | Ernest Thayer poem about baseball subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (5,2,3,3) |
| CASEYATTHE | Ernest Thayer poem about baseball subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (5,2,3,3) |
| SADLER | "The Ballad of the Green Berets" singer |
| BERETS | "The Ballad of the Green ___" |
| SAD | The Ballad of the ___ Cafe |
| CAFE | The Ballad of the Sad ___ |