| ANTONINE | Ms. Maillet (Canadian writer called 'The Soul of Contemporary Acadian Literature') |
| ANTONINEMAILLET | Author called 'The Soul of Contemporary Acadian Literature': 2 wds. |
| PAWN | Chess piece that Phillidor called "the soul of the game" |
| MITCHUM | *Robert whom Roger Ebert called "the soul of film noir" |
| AELFRIC | Old-english prose writer called Grammaticus (7) |
| RUING | This writer called out "Sorry!" |
| ROBBIE | Mr. Robertson, Toronto-born member of The Band with the song "Acadian Driftwood" with the line "They call my home the land of snow" |
| CAPSULE | Foil cap on a wine bottle's cork; seedcase of a foxglove, poppy or violet; or, with "time", a cache of items representative of contemporary life, buried for future discovery (7) |
| CAGE | Pen for writer of contemporary music (4) |
| PEERPRESSURE | The forcefulness of contemporary influencers in Dock Speech by Harry (4,8) |
| BEATNIK | A bohemian person in 1950s who rejected the aims of contemporary society (7) |
| ADRIAKAIN | Canadian R&B singer/songwriter of contemporary album 'When Flowers Bloom': 2 wds. |
| TEMPO | The pace of contemporary life (5) |
| ACHILDOFOURTIME | Composition of contemporary youth (1,5,2,3,4) |
| EROTICA | Dirty pictures ripped up by Institute of Contemporary Arts |
| LIGETI | Gyorgy ---, Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music (6) |
| MODERN | Style of contemporary dance pioneered by Isadora Duncan (6) |
| PICCADILLY | 1870 novel by Laurence Oliphant subtitled A Fragment of Contemporary Biography (10) |
| DANCE | Scandinavian taking in opening of contemporary ballet? |
| CANCAN | Is able to include article on head of contemporary dance (6) |
