| BELOVED | 1987 novel with the opening lines "124 was spiteful. Full of a baby's venom" |
| SPITEFUL | "124 was ___. Full of a baby's venom" (opening lines of "Beloved") |
| ONACID | How Lennon wrote the opening lines of "I Am the Walrus" |
| TWOCITIES | The Charles Dickens novel with the opening line, 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; A Tale Of ... (3,6) |
| III | "Richard ___" (play with the opening line "Now is the winter of our discontent") |
| DRDEMENTO | Host of a syndicated radio show from 1974-2010 with the opening line, ""Wind up your radios" |
| FREEFALLIN | Tom Petty hit with the opening line "She's a good girl, loves her mama" |
| DONTBETHATWAY | Benny Goodman jazz standard with the opening line "April skies are in your eyes" |
| 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 |
| TRUNK | A chest full of a magician's tools and treasures (or the thickest part of a tree) |
| RAREST | "Bring flowers of the ......" opening line of the Hymn 'Queen of the May' (6) |
| EASTANGLIA | Lamb's full of a singular flavour in this part of the country |
| REGRET | "There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, that the colt from old - had got away," opening lines of The Man from Snowy River (6) |
| BEACHCOMBER | Mr Morton wants a jacket, full of a head cold (11) |
| NOEL | Forename of a dramatist who wrote a play that takes its title from the opening line of an ode by Shelley: "Hail to thee, blithe spirit!" (4) |
| WAS | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| APRIL | "___ is the cruellest month" - the opening line of TS Eliot's 1922 poem, The Waste Land (5) |
| HEXAMETER | Line of verse of six feet, such as the opening line of Homer's Iliad (9) |
| SONGFORWHOEVER | 1989 Beautiful South hit with the opening lyrics, 'I love you from the bottom of my pencil case' (4,3,7) |
| ACTONE | Part of a play with the opening scene |
