| ANAPESTIC | Excited about copies of a poet's foot (9) |
| IAMBI | William Bishop wrote about a poet's feet (5) |
| TROCHEE | For a poet, foot of tree with heart that's old, cold and hard (the core rotten) |
| MONALISAS | Copies of a certain portrait. |
| SOTOSPEAK | A poet's OK after trouble about first sign of scansion, as it were (2,2,5) |
| SPEEDBOAT | A poet's bed dislodged in fast vessel (9) |
| GREENLAND | Place a poet's even left during August (9) |
| SIDEBURNS | Dish to accompany a poet's mutton chops (9) |
| OSTEOPATH | Manipulating sort thought a poet's odes retro features (9) |
| OVERGRAZE | What sheep and cows may do no more, a poet's said (9) |
| DANTESQUE | Like a poet's Hamlet, say, carrying quest off |
| HOMER | Devil of a poet's on for the yellow fellow (5,7) |
| ODE | Modest part of a poet's production (3) |
| ERIN | Another instance of a poet's Ireland |
| VALE | Sorrowful leave-taking of a poet's valley |
| ADVERSE | Unfavourable or commercial part of a poet's output? (7) |
| MORN | Part of a poet's day |
| DAN | A coal tub; a sea marker-buoy; one with a black belt; or, an ancient title of a monk or of a poet like Chaucer (3) |
| MILTONIC | Keynes' predecessor in England with one chapter of a poet's work (8) |
| PAINTING | Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did ___ need, / And therefore to your fair no painting set: / I found , or thought I found, you did exceed / The barren tender of a poet's debt |
