| ADLESTROP | Former Cotswold railway station immortalised in a poem by Edward Thomas |
| REVERE | Paul, U.S. patriot immortalised in a poem by Longfellow (6) |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat used by The Owl and the Pussy-cat in a poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| OWL | Companion of the pussy-cat in a poem by Edward Lear (3) |
| COP | ___ & Scholar Green, North Staffordshire station immortalised in Flanders & Swann's 'Slow Train' (3,3) |
| MOW | _ & Scholar Green, North Staffordshire station immortalised in Flanders & Swann's 'Slow Train'(3) |
| FLASH | Pre-drawn tattoo design; a burst of light or a rush of water; or, a space hero immortalised in a single by Queen (5) |
| ANNE | First name of a queen whose name is immortalised in a style of architecture as well as a flat race at Royal Ascot, a blend of tea and a flower with lace-like petals (4) |
| PETERPAN | "Eternal boy" from Neverland in a play and novels by J. M. Barrie and immortalised in a bronze in Kensington Gardens (5,3) |
| SKYLARK | Depicted in a poem by George Meredith that later inspired Ralph Vaughan Williams to write a classical piece, a bird noted for its continuous melodic song when high in flight (7) |
| REDROSE | Flower compared to love in a poem by Robert Burns that was recited by the Prince of Wales in a BBC Scotland audio project (3,4) |
| ASPENS | Trees that "at the cross-roads talk together," in an Edward Thomas poem |
| KENILWORTH | Market town in Warwickshire with a ruined castle immortalised in a novel by Sir Walter Scott (10) |
| DAFFODILS | Forming drifts in spring and described in a poem by William Wordsworth, flowers in the genus Narcissus used as symbols of Saint David and Wales (9) |
| XANADU | Summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China; a city that features in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (6) |
| CAT | Any one of the felines depicted in a poem by T. S. Eliot that serves as the basis of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3) |
| TAM | Short word for a woollen cap that derives its name from that of a hero in a poem by Robert Burns (3) |
| LITTLEORPHANANNIE | Child in a poem by JW Riley and a strip-cartoon by Harold Gray (6,6,5) |
| ETHOS | Distinctive character first seen in Edward Thomas |
| EMMA | Forename of a heroine immortalised in a novel of the same name by the author who also created Elinor Dashwood, Elizabeth Bennet, Fanny Price and others (4) |
