| RAMAYANA | Hindu epic composed of 24,000 couplets |
| PEDICAB | Bad epic composed about rickshaw |
| INCA | With 5-Down, creator of 24,000+ miles of road before 1600 |
| SITA | Goddess, heroine of the Hindu epic Ramayana (4) |
| RAMA | Hero of a Hindu epic |
| NEANDERTHAL | A member of a group of archaic humans who emerged at least 200,000 years ago during the Pleistocene Epoch and were replaced or assimilated by modern humans between 35,000 and perhaps 24,000 years ago. |
| DUE | Synonym for "expected" hidden in "Hindu epics" |
| CONNEMARA | Cutural region in the west of Ireland (pop about 32,00), with 20,000 - 24,000 Irish speakers (9) |
| EPODE | A type of lyric poem composed of couplets in which a long line is followed by a shorter one (5) |
| CLERIHEW | Form of comic verse consisting of two couplets containing the name of a famous person (8) |
| ARBROATH | Sea port and resort on the east coast (pop about 24,000), created a royal burgh in 1599 (8) |
| ELIMANNING | Recently benched quarterback whose father, Archie, passed for almost 24,000 yards in the NFL |
| SCULPT | Couplets composed lacked poem's essential elements or form (6) |
| DRYDEN | Perfecter of heroic couplets who celebrated Charles II's restoration in his panegyric Astraea Redux and became England's first Poet Laureate (6) |
| ALEXANDRINE | A line of usually twelve syllables in alternate couplets in French classical drama (11) |
| RHYMED | Like heroic couplets |
| UNDIGHT | Poet's plain German and English missing from four couplets? |
| ELEGIAC | English-Gaelic translation written in couplets |
| ODETOJOY | Poem inverting couplets from Young, Jonson, Tennyson and Donne |
| EPODES | Lyric poems written in couplets |
