| METHS | Fluid, methinks not writing fluid (5) |
| NORMS | Accepted types and not writing |
| ISAYNO | "Methinks not" |
| SCENT | 'But, soft! methinks in _the morning air' (Shakespeare Hamlet (1601) act 1, sc,5,1,58 (5) |
| EMMET | The ant is back in the stem, methinks (5) |
| EMEER | Muslim ruler stuck up in tree, methinks (5) |
| IFEAR | "Methinks," before bad news |
| WOOLF | "Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sente |
| IDSAY | "Methinks ..." |
| VERDANT | Unsophisticated priest rejected poet not writing English |
| SCRAWLING | Slow progress admitted by Carol, not writing properly |
| TOPNOTE | Poet not writing well? Doh! (3,4) |
| KEROUAC | About whom Capote said, "That's not writing, it's typing" |
| NICHEMARKET | Race, methinks, largely fixed - it won't interest many (5,6) |
| IMHO | Modernized 'methinks': Abbr. |
| ACTIII | When Hamlet says "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" |
| DOTH | "The lady ___ protest too much, methinks": Gertrude in "Hamlet" |
| TOO | "Methinks thou doth protest ___ much" |
| ENZYME | Chemical in body accounts for some frenzy, methinks |
| STICKINTHEMUD | Methinks I'd cut out being unadventurous |
