| MILESANDMILES | Double the distance "before I sleep", according to Robert Frost |
| FREEVERSE | Like playing tennis with the net down, to Robert Frost |
| LASTLY | Go the distance before leap year starts to end (6) |
| OPE | Unlock to Robert Frost |
| RUST | It never sleeps, according to Neil Young |
| PROMISES | "But I have ...to keep / And miles to go before I sleep" (Robert Frost) |
| MILES | "And ___ to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost |
| TRUTH | According to Robert Browning, what never hurts the teller? (5) |
| ROBERTFROST | ". . . and miles to go before I sleep" |
| TOGO | "And miles ___ before I sleep" (Frost) |
| OPERA | "Where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings," according to Robert Benchley |
| WINE | "Bottled poetry," according to Robert Louis Stevenson |
| AYR | Scottish river with "bonie banks", according to Robert Burns (3) |
| RELAY | A kind of footracing event that involves four runners per team, each member carrying a baton for 25 percent of the total distance before passing it to the next team runner. (5) |
| PENNYFARTHING | Cycle a bit, over a great distance, before night comes round (5,8) |
| LENGTHEN | Extend distance before last bit is curtailed (8) |
| LUMBERJACK | "I'm a ____ and I'm okay. I sleep all night and I work all day." (Monty Python song) (10) |
| BRUCE | Robert the _, popular name given to Robert I of Scotland (5) |
| EPISTLE | I sleep, taking time to rewrite long letter |
| PANINI | At home I sleep, rising to make a sandwich (6) |
