| DIN | Gunga ___: 1939 film starring Cary Grant, inspired by a Rudyard Kipling poem of the same name (3) |
| GUNGA | '--- Din', 1939 film starring Cary Grant based on a work by Rudyard Kipling (5) |
| THEBELLS | Choral symphony by Sergei Rachmaninoff based on a poem of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe (3,5) |
| EASTISEAST | 1999 comedy film whose title derives from a line in a Rudyard Kipling poem (4,2,4) |
| WILLIAMS | Ralph Vaughan -; composer whose piece The Lark Ascending was inspired by George Meredith's poem of the same name (8) |
| MANDALAY | Former capital of the Burmese kingdom; or, a Rudyard Kipling poem (8) |
| THE | Rudyard Kipling poem (3) |
| ODE | Poem of the wooden horse (3) |
| LAI | Lyric poem of the middle ages |
| INN | Jamaica ___, 1939 Charles Laughton film (3) |
| AIR | Coming Up for ___, 1939 George Orwell novel (3) |
| JAMES | Jesse ___: 1939 film starring Tyrone Power as an outlaw (5) |
| INARMS | Babes _ _, 1939 film starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland (2,4) |
| GUS | "Donald's Cousin ___" (1939 Disney cartoon) |
| BOOK | CGI movie adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling classic, The Jungle ___ (4) |
| THEJUNGLEBOOK | 2016 movie based on a Rudyard Kipling classic: 3 wds. |
| ESSEX | "The Private Lives of Elizabeth and ___" (1939 film) |
| SNOWFLAKES | Longfellow poem featuring the line 'This is the poem of the air' |
| LAURA | Muse who inspired the 366 poems of the Canzoniere by 14th-century Italian poet Petrarch (5) |
| GUNGADIN | 1892 Rudyard Kipling poem about a bhisti, or water-carrier (5,3) |
