| SLANT | Incline (and a hint to the location in this completed puzzle of the first line of 9- & 59-Across) |
| LOVEHATERELATIONSHIPS | They involve mixed feelings ... or a hint to four squares in this completed puzzle |
| SHAP | Famous WCML incline and summit (4) |
| RONDEAU | A poem consisting of 13 or 10 lines with two rhymes, with the opening words of the first line used as an unrhymed refrain |
| LIBERTYBELL | Historic symbol whose shape can be found hidden in this completed puzzle |
| ENDISNEAR | Second half of the first line of My Way, as sung by Frank Sinatra |
| EXTENDS | Former spouse inclines and stretches (7) |
| MIGHTAS | (and 4 down) 'You ___ ___ ___ ___': the last line of 9 down's poem Resume (5,2,4,4) |
| THREE | Number of times N appears in this completed grid |
| WELLLIVE | 'You ___ ___ ___ ___': the last line of 9 down's poem Resume (5,2,4,4) |
| ROW | Sudoku line of nine |
| SETTING | Surroundings; the scenery etc used to create the location in a play or film; or, a mounting for a gem in a piece of jewellery (7) |
| ORPHAN | In typography, the first line of a paragraph which is separated from the rest of the paragraph by a column break (6) |
| THECHRONICLESOFNARNIA | The name of the main location in this book series is based on that of a hill town in Umbria |
| MOOCOW | Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" |
| TAILINGOFF | Waning ... or a hint to what is found by circling all the T's in the completed puzzle |
| TRIOLET | Eight-line poem in which the first line repeats as the fourth and seventh and the second line repeats as the eighth (7) |
| BOAC | Which now-defunct airline is namechecked in the first line of the Beatles" Back In The USSR? (1,1,1,1) |
| STILTON | Rich variety of English blue cheese named for the location in Cambridgeshire of the coaching inn in which it was originally sold (7) |
| BATONROUGE | City in Louisiana mentioned in the first line of the song Me and Bobby McGee |