| ARMSANDTHEMAN | 1894 three- act comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes its name from the first line of Virgil's Aeneid (4,3,3,3) |
| THESILVERBOX | 1906 3-act comedy by the dramatist John Galsworthy (3,6,3) |
| AROUNDTHEBAY | Sunday, March 30th, 2025... Hamilton road race since 1894: 3 wds. |
| MERCEDESBENZ | German car company which takes part of its name from the first person to have a document allowing them to drive |
| DAN | First name from the first year of "SNL" |
| ORPHAN | In typography, the first line of a paragraph which is separated from the rest of the paragraph by a column break (6) |
| ARMS | Comedy play by George Bernard Shaw whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid (4,3,3,3) |
| ANDTHEMAN | Comedy play by George Bernard Shaw whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid (4,3,3,3) |
| LOLA | Name of the showgirl mentioned in the first line of 13A's hit Copacabana (4) |
| BEFORE | The first line of the 1823 poem A Visit From St Nicholas, "Twas the night _ Christmas" (6) |
| SILENTNIGHTHOLYNIGHT | What is the first line of the Christmas carol that continues: "All is calm, all is bright; Round yon |
| BOAC | Which now-defunct airline is namechecked in the first line of the Beatles" Back In The USSR? (1,1,1,1) |
| ETONRIFLES | The first line of the Jam's The ____ is "Sup up your beer and collect your fags" |
| MOOCOW | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| TRIOLET | Eight-line poem in which the first line repeats as the fourth and seventh and the second line repeats as the eighth (7) |
| ENZO | "The Godfather" character who has the first line of the movie |
| KEEPTHEHOMEFIRESBURNING | "They were summoned from the hillside" is the first line of this 1914 song |
| ENDISNEAR | Second half of the first line of My Way, as sung by Frank Sinatra |
| BATONROUGE | City in Louisiana mentioned in the first line of the song Me and Bobby McGee |
| GEORGEORWELL | In the first line of a novel, he wrote, "and the clocks were striking 13" |