| EWART | Middle name of William Gladstone; or, the poet whose lyrics were used for the WAGGGS World Song anthem (5) |
| RAT | Rodent carrying the fleas which may spread plague, even the Black Plague if, that is, it wasn't anth |
| OAKLEAF | Any one of the photosynthesis organs of trees in the genus Quercus such as encina that were used for the crowns of ancient kings (3,4) |
| TREFOIL | Symbol of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) (7) |
| FROST | "Sparkly" weather condition occurring on an ice day; or, the poet who wrote Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (5) |
| LILY | Actor Gladstone or Tomlin |
| INTERNATIONALE | Left-wing anthem whose lyrics were written by the anarchist Eugene Pottier, with "The" |
| RANGE | American folk song whose lyrics were written by Dr. Brewster M. Higley, Home On The _ (5) |
| BYRON | Lord -; title of the poet whose works include Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan, the father of Ada Lovelace, he died from malaria at the age of 36 (5) |
| CANDLEINTHEWIND | Elton John song whose lyrics were originally addressed to Marilyn Monroe (6,2,3,4) |
| DOROTHYWORDSWORTH | Canadian author Kathleen Winter's novel Undersong is about Romantic Era writer ___ ___ (b.1771 - d.1855) ...the younger sister of the famous 'Lake District' English poet with the first name of William |
| MISSSAIGON | 1989 Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil West End musical whose lyrics were co-written by Richard Maltby, Jr |
| CURARE | Alkaloid causing paralysis, arrows dipped in this (or the frog poison) were used for hunting in the |
| TEMPEST | The ___, Shakespeare play whose characters' names were used for some of Uranus's moons (7) |
| COLERIDGE | Surname of the poet whose writing of 'Kubla Khan' interrupted by a person from Porlock (9) |
| OHENRY | Pen name of William Sidney Porter, author of short story collections Roads of Destiny and The Four Million (1,5) |
| CARD | "The ___ Counter" (2021 film in which Oscar Isaac's character has the extremely on-the-nose name of William Tell) |
| EDNA | First name of the poet whose "candle burns at both ends" |
| ARDEN | Maiden name of William Shakespeare's mother Mary, and the forest in which he set the comedy As You Like It (5) |
| ARE | We ___ the World song by the charity supergroup USA for Africa |
