| RYEANDRYEAGAIN | Mantra of the never say die grain farmer? |
| CALLOFTHEWILDOATS | Distraction for a grain farmer? |
| WHEATGERMAN | Language spoken by some European grain farmers? |
| HAREKRISHNA | Mantra of the chanting orange-robed devotees of the seventies Hindu sect (4,7) |
| REDRUM | Reverse mantra of "The Shining" |
| ITHINKICAN | Mantra of the Little Engine That Could |
| EXTERNAL | Outside of the unknown interior of the never-ending (8) |
| GUNN | Who was born in Melbourne in 1870 and wrote The Little Black Princess (1905) and We of the Never-Never (1908) (4) |
| JEANIEGUNN | We of the Never Never author, Mrs ... ... (6,4) |
| TERRITORIAL | Ill-prepared literati, or top reaches of the Never Never |
| HOPEAGAINSTPOPE | Bob versus Francis in an optimistic, never say die kind of way? |
| ENDE | Apt author of The Never-Ending Story |
| NIL | Which tag from Horace, - desperandum means "never say die; never give up in despair"? (3) |
| LESTER | 18-year-old ... Piggott became the youngest jockey to win an English Derby when he rode Never Say Die to victory in 1954 |
| STAY | Chasers out, yet to beat Never Say Die (4,3,6) |
| WELSHMAN | Never say die? One might, addressing him |
| STAYTHECOURSE | Chasers out, yet to beat Never Say Die |
| SERENADE | A song "Never say die" made Ivy leave ... (8) |
| HEARSAYEVIDENCE | Never say die. Each used to gossip (7,8) |
| THECOURSE | see 26dn, Chasers out, yet to beat Never Say Die |
