| NONSENSE | Edward Lear wrote this drivel (8) |
| LIBRETTO | Gilbert wrote this, spilling litre bottle (top half only) (8) |
| RHAPSODY | Gershwin wrote this in Blue |
| CAPSLOCK | WHAT WAS ON WHEN I WROTE THIS CLUE |
| HAYFEVER | Noel Coward wrote this complaint |
| LIMERICK | Verse form popularised by Edward Lear (8) |
| LUMINOUS | Dong with a ___ Nose, Edward Lear character (8) |
| PUSSYCAT | The Owl and the ___, poem by Edward Lear (8) |
| BYTHEBYE | Incidentally, who wrote this article on what the batsman got for missing it? (2,3,3) |
| RUNCIBLE | ___ spoon, fictional implement in Edward Lear's The Owl And The Pussycat (8) |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| THEAKOND | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (3,5,2,4) |
| BONGTREE | Fictional plant mentioned in The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (4-4) |
| BLACK | 14 wrote this line, following shortage in pub (5,5) |
| PRELUDE | Wordsworth wrote this prior to dreadful duel (7) |
| GIBB | She wrote "This is Happy": Camilla ___ |
| WOUK | Herman who wrote "This Is My God" |
| SOUTHEY | He wrote this bit of blurb before those (7) |
| OCTET | Mendelssohn wrote this piece finally on time, in a month |
| WHEREEAGLESDARE | Alistair MacLean wrote this novel and film screenplay simultaneously |
