| THEDIVINECOMEDY | Epic poem whose parts end 17-, 33-, and 39-Across |
| BEOWULF | Old English epic poem whose translations include one by Seamus Heaney published in 1999 (7) |
| TRAINTRACK | Its parts end 17-Across and 11- and 28- |
| MIXINGBOWLS | Places where ingredients become one ... and what the scrambled first words of 17-, 33- and 39-Across are doing? |
| ONELINERS | Short gags ... or the characters in the 17-, 33- and 39-Across clues? |
| DILATED | Drill part's end oddly spread (7) |
| FOODDESERTS | Areas far from supermarkets ... or a literal interpretation of 17-, 33- and 41- Across? |
| LAMPS | Reading aids, whose parts include the ends of 17-, 23-, 45- and 57- Across |
| SCABBARD | Weapon accessory whose parts may include a throat and chape (8) |
| INTESTINES | Body organs whose parts include the duodenum and ileum (10) |
| SWORD | Traditional weapon whose parts can include a ricasso, fuller and quillons (5) |
| REEDPIPE | A simple wind instrument whose parts include a boot and shallot (4,4) |
| STOLEN | Filched, or what the ends of 17-, 33-, 39and 57- Across could be |
| RONDELET | Poem whose first, third and seventh lines are identical |
| STILLIRISE | Classic poem whose subject is "a black ocean, leaping and wide" |
| HORDERN | Actor whose parts ranged from King Lear to the voice of Paddington Bear and of Badger in The Wind in the Willows (7) |
| CORIANDER | A cousin of parsley whose parts are used as both an herb and a spice. |
| CABBAGE | Vegetable, all of whose parts are in scale (7) |
| HURDYGURDY | Musical instrument whose parts only differ at the top (5-5) |
| PAROLLES | Shakespearean braggart whose parts may be all prose |
