| READON | If poetry be the food of love.. (Continue? no, dear, to misquote Shakespeare!) (4,2) |
| MOGWAI | Scottish band whose tenth album, As the Love Continues, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart in 2021 |
| TOQUE | Brimless hat may give rise to misquote (5) |
| SCAN | Of poetry, be metrically correct |
| CHEAP | No, dear! That's the one! (5) |
| END | Continue no longer |
| RUNON | Continue; no urn (anag.) (3,2) |
| ENDS | Continues no longer |
| ORSINO | Duke of Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, who spoke the line "if music be the food of Love play on" (6) |
| PLAYON | "If music be the food of love, ___ ___": Duke of Orsino in Twelfth Night (4,2) |
| NECTAR | What is said to be the food of the gods (6) |
| POETIC | Cope with it being muddled, like much of Shakespeare! |
| TABARD | Herald's coat, thanks to Shakespeare! (6) |
| ENDURE | Weather to continue? (6) |
| SCOTTY | Live with a Frenchwoman for all to see (and by the way, bed extremely tidy) misquote from Star Trek (4,2,2,6) |
| GARBLE | Misquote |
| MARTIN | Author exhibits Muslim art in a misquote (6,4) |
| OFIT | 'If music be the food of love, play on,/Give me excess ___...': Shakespeare |
| MUSIC | "If - be the food of love, play on..." - the opening line in Twelfth Night (5) |
| IAMB | One-fifth of "If music be the food of love, play on" |
