| MAINCLAUSE | Leo's characteristics mentioned in a few meaningful words |
| PHRASE | Sequence of meaningful words |
| SUGARPLUM | Mentioned in A Visit from St. Nicholas, a crystallised damsonlike fruit, or; a spiced fruit-and-nut confection resembling such (5,4) |
| VIOLETS | Containing ionone esteemed in perfumery, wild flowers mentioned in a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet whose name is suggestive of their colour (7) |
| BANBURY | A cross in which English town is mentioned in a nursery rhyme? (7) |
| VITAE | A resume mentioned in a Brit film is called a C.V. (curriculum _____). |
| TOKAY | A wine mentioned in a national anthem |
| UNTAG | Remove the name of, as a person mentioned in a Facebook post |
| DOE | Female animal mentioned in a song in The Sound of Music |
| TALENT | Ancient unit of money mentioned in a parable in the Bible (Matthew 25:14-30) (6) |
| WREKIN | The -; hill and distinctive landmark between Telford and Shrewsbury, mentioned in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (6) |
| MOUSE | Type of rodent portrayed in E. B. White's Stuart Little or mentioned in A Visit from St Nicholas (5) |
| OXLIPS | Related to primroses, mentioned in A Midsummer Night's Dream and listed as "near threatened" in Britain, the county flowers of Suffolk (6) |
| ABERFELDY | Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9) |
| USSR | Country mentioned in a Beatles title |
| SAHARA | Desert mentioned in a song title on "Synchronicity" |
| THYME | Herb mentioned in a Simon and Garfunkel song |
| SATIN | Material mentioned in a Moody Blues title |
| TUPAC | Rapper mentioned in a lot of tributes |
| ORE | State mentioned in a Jack White/Loretta Lynn song: abbr. |
