| PIMMS | Drink backed across midsummer?! (5) |
| PALATABLE | Tasty drink backed by a group of diners (9) |
| HAPPYASTHEDAYISLONG | Very contented dwarf on account of it being midsummer? |
| CAJUN | Louisiana cuisine found roundabout midsummer month (5) |
| EGEUS | Father of Hermia in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (5) |
| MODEM | Poem in midsummer used to link computers (5) |
| DREAM | A Midsummer Night's -, Shakespeare comedy (5) |
| SNOUT | Tom, tinker in A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| FLUTE | Bellows-mender in A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| THYME | "I know a bank where the wild - blows, Where ox lips and the nodding violet grows..." A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| BROOK | Director whose productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company include King Lear and A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| ROBIN | Tailor in William Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream (5,10) |
| GAVEL | Tom -, tinker in William Shakespeare play A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| SLEEP | 'I have an exposition of ___ come upon me' (Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 4, sc. 1) (5) |
| CLARE | Poet whose descriptions of country life have been published in collections including The Midsummer Cushion and The Rural Muse (5) |
| PEARL | 'I must go seek some dew-drops here,/And hang a ___ in every cowslip's ear' (Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream act 2, sc. 1) (5) |
| ESPYS | Athletics awards given out in midsummer |
| PROSE | What the Mechanicals speak in, in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| SEEST | "___ thou this sweet sight?": Oberon, in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| NINUS | Assyrian king: "Ninny", according to Flute (Midsummer Night's Dream, 3.1.97) |
