| RUNCIBLESPOON | Cutlery item mentioned by Edward Lear (8,5) |
| RULA | Stationery item mentioned by Ms Lenska (4) |
| ALE | Cakes and ___, items mentioned by Sir Toby Belch (3) |
| STROP | Item mentioned in "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" |
| LATTER | Second item mentioned (6) |
| NONSENSEVERSE | Work by Edward Lear? (8,5) |
| DESSERTSPOONS | Cutlery items busybody emphasised should be placed the other way up |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| BONGTREE | Fictional plant mentioned in The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (4-4) |
| BERIBERI | Two fruity items mentioned caused complaint (4-4) |
| LIMERICKS | Five-line humorous verses made popular by Edward Lear |
| SWAT | 'The Akond of -', nonsense poem by Edward Lear (4) |
| NONSENSE | A form of absurd verse composed by Edward Lear (8) |
| AKOND | The ___ of Swat, nonsense poem by Edward Lear |
| PUSSYCAT | The Owl and the ___, poem by Edward Lear (8) |
| LIMERICK | Nonsense verse popularised by Edward Lear (8) |
| THEAKOND | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (3,5,2,4) |
| PARROTS | Known collectively as a pandemonium or a prattle, psittacine popinjays such as lovebirds or any of those depicted in lithographs by Edward Lear (7) |
| OFSWAT | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (2,4) |
| THEJUMBLIES | Poem in 1871 volume Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets by Edward Lear (3,8) |
