| ILPENSEROSO | A vision of poetic Melancholy by John Milton presented as a companion piece to L'Allegro |
| IWOJIMA | Letters from ---, Second World War film, a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers |
| THEPRIVATEEAR | Play by Peter Shaffer, a companion piece of The Public Eye (3,7,3) |
| EGLANTINE | A wild rose or sweetbrier with apple-scented foliage and sprays of fragrant pink blooms in the summer; or, John Milton's word in L'Allegro for what is thought to be honeysuckle (9) |
| WOODNOTE | Word, from John Milton's pastoral poem L'Allegro, for a natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest (8) |
| IWO | Clint Eastwood's companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from - Jima (3) |
| ROSETTE | An arrangement of ribbons formed into a flower-shaped design, worn as a badge or presented as a prize (7) |
| EARTHLY | Hieronymus Bosch triptych ranging from the Garden of Eden to a vision of hell, The Garden Of ... Del |
| STYGIAN | 'Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born, /'In ___ cave forlorn' (John Milton 'L'Allegro', 1645) (7) |
| ALE | 'Then to the spicy nut-brown ___' (John Milton 'L'Allegro' (1645)) (3) |
| DAVIDBOWIE | Rock legend who hoaxed the art world in 1998 by promoting Nat Tate, a nonexistent painter and the subject of a novel presented as a full-length biography |
| PERI | A vision of loveliness as I moved to end of quay |
| RHYS | Pen name of the author of Wide Sargasso Sea and its companion piece Smile Please (4) |
| ASPIDISTRA | Popular houseplant presented as a symbol of middle class values by George Orwell |
| SPOON | Utensil with a wooden type traditionally presented as a booby prize at Cambridge, hence a fool (5) |
| JACOB | He had a vision of a ladder into heaven with angels going up and down it (5) |
| DREAMS | Like a vision of Miss West turning up to dry out (6) |
| IMAGINE | Which John Lennon classic was a vision of an ideal world? (7) |
| NASTURTIUM | With edible flowers, a climbing plant often used as a companion for cabbage, kale and cauliflower, depicted in a painting by E. Phillips Fox (10) |
| THYME | Fragrant evergreen perennial used as a companion plant for cabbages, roses and strawberries or as part of herbes de Provence mixtures or a bouquet garni (5) |
