| ELEGY | In classical literature, a poem written in alternating verses of hexameter and pentameter; from Greek, 'lament' (5) |
| APTE | How a hexameter and pentameter sit? Ov. Am. 2.17.21f — nicely |
| HAIFA | A poem written in middle of that Israeli city (5) |
| BOUSTROPHEDON | Ancient text written in alternating directions, later suggested by 21, 37 and 48 Across |
| ALL | Completely immersed in classical literature (3) |
| HOMERSCARE | Pop quiz in classical literature class? |
| HHCTOR | Opponent of 9-Down, in classical literature |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| THEME | A topic; a recurrent idea in art/ literature; a motif/subject in music; or, a setting given to a pub/restaurant (5) |
| EUNUCH | Classical Literature: In Terence's play The ____, the title character is a present from Phaedria to Thais |
| ANATOLEFRANCE | French poet and novelist of Les dieux ont soif and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature a decade after mAETERLINCK (7,6) |
| THULE | In classical European literature, a location in the far north (5) |
| ISABELLA | -, or the Pot of Basil; John Keats poem written in ottava rima, adapted from a story in Boccaccio's The Decameron (8) |
| ODE | Type of poem written in praise of a particular person, object, animal etc. (3) |
| LENTILS | Masoor dal is prepared using the red variety of these pulses while those from Puy in France are gree |
| GRECIANURN | Ode On A --- ---, poem written by John Keats in 1819, initially published anonymously (7,3) |
| SATIRES | A collection of poems in dactylic hexameter by the Latin author Juvenal focused on society and social mores (7) |
| ILIAD | Greek epic poem written in dactylic hexameter |
| AGNEEPATH | Which film stars Amitabh Bachchan as Vijay Dinanath Chauhan? The title is taken from a poem written by Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Amitabh's father. |
| DIN | Last word of nine verses of a Kipling poem |
