| ASHROPSHIRELAD | A cycle of sixty-three poems by A E Housman published in 1896 |
| ONEINSEVEN | So nine are squashed flat. nine out of sixty-three (3,2,5) |
| RECITE | “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and ____ three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator” (Lemony Snicket) |
| ONWENLOCKEDGE | A song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that consists of settings of poems by A.E. Housman (2,7,4) |
| LAD | 'A Shropshire ---', poem by A.E. Housman (3) |
| ROTATION | A word for a spin of a planet, turn of a wheel or other axial turn; a cycle of alternating arable fields for crops or felling trees; a mathematical curl; or, any recurrent order (8) |
| IDYLLS | - of the King; tracing the legend of King Arthur, his knights and love for Guinevere, a cycle of 12 narrative poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (6) |
| ROTA | From the Latin for "wheel", a round, such as Sumer is icumen in a cycle of duty; a schedule; or, a hurdy-gurdy (4) |
| OSSIAN | Narrator of a cycle of epic poems by James Macpherson |
| WHENWEWERE | 1924 book of poems by A A Milne (4,2,4,4,5) |
| WEIR | '--- of Hermiston', unfinished novel by R.L. Stevenson published in 1896 (4) |
| VERYYOUNG | 1924 book of poems by A A Milne (4,2,4,4,5) |
| NATHANSHOTDOGS | What Joey Chestnut consumed sixty-three of-pausing to subdue a protester in a Darth Vader mask-to defend his competitive-eating title (July, 2022) |
| LOVELIEST | '___ of trees, the cherry now, Is hung with bloom along the bough': A.E. Housman |
| BREDON | In summertime on / The bells they sound so clear (A. E. Housman) |
| BROMSGROVE | Worcestershire town, birthplace of the poet A E Housman (10) |
| MOKSHA | In Hinduism, the final release of the soul from a cycle of incarnations |
| HERMISTON | Unfinished novel by RL Stevenson published in 1896 (4,2,9) |
| WEIROF | Unfinished novel by RL Stevenson published in 1896 (4,2,9) |
| LILYMARLENE | Which popular song was written as a poem by a German soldier in WWI? (4,7) |
