| NANNIE | Girl in a Robert Burns poem |
| ABERFELDY | Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9) |
| SMA | Kind of request in a Robert Burns poem |
| SYNE | Word in a Robert Burns poem heard on December 31 |
| JEAN | "The lassie I love best" in a Robert Burns poem |
| MOUSE | What is the "Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie" in a Robert Burns poem? (5) |
| YELLOWHAMMER | Bird of the bunting family mentioned in a Robert Burns poem (12) |
| REDREDROSE | Flower that "my Luve is like," in a Robert Burns poem |
| LASS | Handsome Nell, in a Robert Burns song |
| CUTTYSARK | Famous witch from a Robert Burns poem (5,4) |
| AULDLANGSYNE | Song based on a Robert Burns poem (4,4,4) |
| BRAE | The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song |
| OFMICEANDMEN | John Steinbeck novella, published 1937, whose title comes from a Robert Burns poem (2,4,3,3) |
| THEBESTLAID | (and 9, 12, 21, 28 across) Line from a Robert Burns poem that has become a proverb (3,4,4) |
| HAMELIN | Vermin-infested town in a Robert Browning poem |
| ROPOTAD | Either of two diverging in a Robert Frost poem |
| TAM | Cap named for a Robert Burns hero |
| JEKYLL | Troubled doctor in a Robert Louis Stevenson story (6) |
| ETTA | Place in a Robert Redford flick |
| MRHYDE | Villain in a Robert Louis Stevenson novel |
