| OTTAVARIMA | Meaning "eighth rhyme", a poem such as Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (6,4) |
| ENVOI | Short stanza at the end of a poem such as a ballad (5) |
| CHAUCER | Author of Parlement of Foules and The Canterbury Tales whose Troilus and Criseyde was inspired by Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (7) |
| DEMON | Gentleman such as Giovanni took me back in, the fiend (5) |
| FINDER | In a rhyme, a discoverer, thus keeper, as opposed to a loser/weeper (6) |
| NURSERY | --- rhyme, a short traditional verse or song for children (7) |
| GRISELDA | Opera by Antonio Vivaldi based on a story in Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron (8) |
| DECAMERON | The ; Giovanni Boccaccio's collection of 100 tales including Nastagio degli Onesti illustrated inSandro Botticelli's Banquet in the Pine Forest (9) |
| ANONYM | Soon, your setter's turning up as 'Giovanni'? (6) |
| INNOCENT | Blameless as Giovanni Lotario de' Conti? |
| ELEGY | Poem such as Gray wrote in a churchyard (5) |
| ODE | Lyric poem such as Keats's '-to a Nightingale' (3) |
| HAIKU | Type of poem, such as Matsuo Basho's 'In the twilight rain/these brilliant-hued hibiscus.../A lovely sunset' (5) |
| SYMPHONIC | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ poem, such as George Gershwin's An American In Paris (9) |
| EPOPEE | The name for an epic poem such as Beowulf (6) |
| EPIC | Long narrative poem such as the Iliad or Beowulf |
| ODES | Lyric poems, such as those by John Keats, addressing autumn, a Grecian urn, indolence, melancholy, a nightingale or Psyche (4) |
| SONNET | Poem such as "Ozymandias" |
| LEAR | Edward ___, 19th-century English humorist noted for nonsense poems such as The Jumblies (4) |
| RESPIGHI | Italian composer of tone poems such as Fountains of Rome (8) |
