| LEDE | First line in a newspaper story |
| OFTWO | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times' is the first line in A Tale ... Cities (2,3) |
| WALLACE | Rebel Wilson's first lines in a doubly incomplete scene (7) |
| BYLINE | A line in a newspaper naming the writer of an article (6) |
| COMICSTRIP | Regular line in a newspaper |
| PIPEBYLINE | Credit for a newspaper story on a Magritte work? |
| KILL | Stop, as a newspaper story |
| EDIT | Shorten a newspaper story, perhaps |
| ARTICLE | Perhaps a newspaper story (7) |
| FEATURE | An eye, maybe, for a newspaper story? |
| PARAGRAPH | Section of a newspaper story (9) |
| HEADLINE | As seen at the top of a newspaper story (8) |
| RUNIT | Opposite of "sit on" a newspaper story |
| DONTYOUWANTME | "You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar" is the first line in which song? (4,3,4,2) |
| REALMS | "Much have I travell'd in the ------of gold" is the first line in John Keats' poem On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer (6) |
| DEFINITEARTICLE | Part of speech in a particular newspaper story (8,7) |
| ANNAKARENINA | "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the first line in which 19th century novel? (4,8) |
| EPIC | "I have lived in important places, times when great events were decided" is the first line in which Patrick Kavanagh poem? (4) |
| ANNA | "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the first line in which novel? (4,8) |
| KARENINA | "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" is the first line in which novel? (4,8) |
