| TOAMOUSE | Burns 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie' poem (2,1,5) |
| MOUSE | Robert Burns' "wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" (5) |
| TOA | Robert Burns poem, ... Mouse (the 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie') (2,1) |
| BEASTIE | Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous ___ (7) |
| WEE | Like Burns's tim'rous beastie |
| MOOSE | Canada's giant elk - a cow'rin, tim'rous beastie? (5) |
| ALITTLELEARNING | Pope called it "dang'rous" |
| MIDGEURE | Wee beastie occasionally hurries frontman of 52 (5,3) |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| KING | Male dragonfly; highest-ranking face card; large bed; or, any of the male monarchs described in John Rous' Historia Regum Angliae (4) |
| BONNAROO | Festival where the Beastie Boys gave their last performance |
| SABOTAGE | Beastie Boys single with the lyric "I'ma set it straight, this Watergate" |
| SERGEANT | A twilled woollen fabric beastie - he's got three stripes (8) |
| TIMOROUS | Burns' beasties are seen on SE Asian island originally open to America (8) |
| HOROVITZ | Adam ___ rapper popularly known as Ad-Rock who was a member of the hip-hop group Beastie Boys |
| LICENSED | ___ to Ill debut album by Beastie Boys that became the first rap album to top the Billboard charts |
| SHADRACH | 1989 Beastie Boys single |
| OGRESSES | Female beasties like Shrek's Fiona |
| CRITTERS | Beasties |
| URINE | Wee beastie ultimately supporting one in Burns's heart (5) |
