| REVERSED | Embarrrassed about poetry ? or vice versa |
| CONVERSELY | Talk with heartless lady ? or vice versa (10) |
| VERSEOPINIONS | Views about poetry? |
| BRAGG | Billy __, singer who spoke to the Taxman about Poetry? (5) |
| REVERSE | About poetry? The opposite! (7) |
| BEAT | Topic covered by a journalist or a reporter; a pulsation of the heart; rhythm in music or poetry; or, a stretch of river fished by an angler (4) |
| STORGE | Greek-derived word for natural or instinctual affection, as of parents for their children, or vice versa (6) |
| MUSICUM | Of music, or poetry, or dramatic art (neut. nom. and acc. sing.) |
| ARGOSY | In poetry or literature, what is a large abundantly laden merchant ship, originally one from Ragusa or Venice? (6) |
| MYTHUS | Latin rendering of a Greek word for a symbolical or traditional story; a body of fables, folk tales or legends; the underlying belief system of a society expressed allegorically through art, drama or |
| CROSSDRESSER | Man in a woman's outfit (or vice-versa) (5-7) |
| REPAPER | Decorate from top to bottom, or vice versa (7) |
| ROADRAGE | Transport of fury (or vice versa) (4,4) |
| GIMLET | Wood turned into a tool, or vice versa (6) |
| COUSIN | Cricket, to a grasshopper, or vice versa |
| ISART | "Life ___" (or vice versa) |
| ZOOM | Change from long shot to close-up or vice versa |
| DATELINE | Where today becomes tomorrow or vice-versa (8) |
| PLAY | Sport may be part of the act, or vice versa |
| EURASIA | Where East meets West, or vice versa (7) |