| OPHIR | Biblical port that appears in the opening line of the Masefield poem Cargoes |
| ALLEN | US poet of the Beat Generation who appears in the opening segment of D A Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back |
| GINSBERG | US poet of the Beat Generation who appears in the opening segment of D A Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back |
| GONG | Which musical instrument appears in the opening credits for all Rank films? (4) |
| ELOTH | Biblical port |
| WAS | Word seen 11 times in the opening line of "A Tale of Two Cities" |
| NEON | Gas mentioned in the opening line of "On Broadway" |
| CAT | Sort of creature that used to appear in the opening credits of Corrie (3) |
| RAREST | "Bring flowers of the ......" opening line of the Hymn 'Queen of the May' (6) |
| 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) |
| QUINQUEREME | Ship mentioned in the first stanza of Masefield's poem Cargoes (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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| ALLSHOOKUP | 1957 #1 song title that appears in the line after 'I'm in love' |
| AMEN | Word that appears in the New Testament ... and in the phrase "New Testament" |
| JACKDAW | A bird that appears in "The Magician's Nephew" as "the first joke in Narnia" (7) |
| VINCENT | 'Starry, starry night' is the opening line of Don McLean's tribute song |
| CALLMEISHMAEL | The opening line of Moby-Dick (4,2,7) |
