| SEAFEVEF | 1902 poem by English poet John Masefield featuring the line 'And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by' (3-5) |
| SEAFEVER | 1902 poem by John Masefield (3,5) |
| 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) |
| PARADISELOST | Epic poem in blank verse by English poet John Milton, first published in ten books in 1667 (8,4) |
| ALLI | "And ___ ask is a tall ship...": John Masefield |
| OAF | "Muddied - - - ", tag that Rudyard Kipling applied to a rugby player in his 1902 poem TheIslanders (3) |
| INVICTUS | Poem by English poet WE Henley, published in 1888 and noted for its evocation of stoicism (8) |
| PLOWMAN | Allegorical narrative poem by English poet William Langland (c. 1370) that makes the first known literary reference to Robin Hood (7) |
| PIERS | Allegorical narrative poem by English poet William Langland (c. 1370) that makes the first known literary reference to Robin Hood (5) |
| PHANTOM | The ____ of the Opera, musical that premiered in 1986 and includes the song All I Ask of You (7) |
| GRECIAN | Ode on a ____ Urn, poem by English Romantic poet John Keats published in 1820 (7) |
| BLEAKMIDWINTER | In The ____ , carol based on a poem by English Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (5,9) |
| DONEVERLY | Older of the singing brothers whose hits included Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie and All I Have to Do Is Dream |
| ISACT | "And all I gotta do ___ ___ naturally...": Bit from a country tune Ringo covered with The Beatles |
| TITAN | This, I see, was a ship (and a big one) (5) |
| AGNES | The Eve Of St ___, 1819 poem by English Romantic John Keats (5) |
| SOLDIER | The ___ , poem by English war poet Rupert Brooke (7) |
| LYCIDAS | Poem by English writer John Milton about a shepherd first published in 1638 (7) |
| FORETOPMAST | On a fully-rigged tall ship, the ____ staysail is positioned behind three jibs |
