| MUSICHATHCHARMS | 1935 film; the opening words of William Congreve's play The Mourning Bride (5,4,6) |
| MIRABELL | Lover of Millamant in Congreve's play The Way of the World (8) |
| RAGE | 'Heaven has no ___, like love to hatred turned' (William Congreve The Mourning Bride (1697) |
| DONAT | Robert, actor who played Richard Hannay in the 1935 film The 39 Steps (5) |
| ELCORDOBES | Bullfighter who's the subject of the book "Or I'll Dress You in the Mourning" |
| MERLE | Ms. Oberon, Best Actress Oscar nominee for 1935 film The Dark Angel (5) |
| HITCHCOCK | This director's 1935 film The 39Steps is widely considered to be cinema's seminal spy thriller |
| SCABIOUS | Plant of which mourning bride is a variety (8) |
| TALEASOLDASTIME | Opening words of "beauty and the beast" by Celine Dion and Peabo bryson |
| CREDO | From the opening words of the Apostles' statement of Christian principles, "I believe", a term for a canon, doctrine or other set of beliefs (5) |
| DEATHBENOTPROUD | Opening words of John Donne's Sonnet X, by which it is also known (5,2,3,5) |
| ARMSANDTHEMAN | Play by George Bernard Shaw, set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid |
| RONDEAU | A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain |
| THEBEST | The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (2,3,3,4,2,5) |
| ITWAS | The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (2,3,3,4,2,5) |
| OFTIMES | The opening words of A Tale of Two Cities (2,3,3,4,2,5) |
| OKING | Approving of the opening words of Ode to Charles? (5) |
| 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) |
| ADANO | "Invasion had come to the town of ___" (opening words of a 1944 novel) |
