| ECLOGUES | A collection of 10 pastoral poems composed by Virgil (8) |
| BEASTLY | - Tales; collection of 10 animal fables in verse by A Suitable Boy, An Equal Music and forthcoming novel A Suitable Girl author Vikram Seth (7) |
| SETH | Author of the collection of 10 fables in poetry Beastly Tales whose novel A Suitable Boy was recently adapted into a television drama (4) |
| APRILTHESES | Collection of 10 directives written by Vladimir Lenin |
| ONTHEMAP | More well-known than poem composed (2,3,3) |
| WOODNOTE | Word, from John Milton's pastoral poem L'Allegro, for a natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest (8) |
| LALLEGRO | Pastoral poem by John Milton published in 1645 (8) |
| OKCORRAL | Place that gives its name to a gunfight in Tombstone in 1881 between groups lead by Virgil Earp and Ike Clanton (1,1,6) |
| OFFWHITE | Streetwear label founded by Virgil Abloh |
| OEDIPAL | Like a complex poem composed by one friend |
| EPODE | A type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one (5) |
| NIGHTRIDEANDSUNRISE | Tone poem composed by Jean Sibelius in 1908 (9,3,7) |
| SONNET | Short poem composed by child - no - alien? |
| LYRIC | Poem composed by Cyril (5) |
| CYCLE | Series of songs or poems composed round a central event or figure (5) |
| COMPENSATE | Can't get poems composed, at the end, to make amends (10) |
| TEMPOS | Rhythms of poems composed at first time (6) |
| THEOCRITUS | Sicily-born poet who wrote the first pastoral poems in Greek literature (10) |
| AENEID | A Latin epic poem written by Virgil, telling the legendary story of a Trojan hero who became the ancestor of the Romans (6) |
| BOUTSRIMES | Poems composed from given line-ending words |
