| OFSWAT | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (2,4) |
| THEAKOND | Nonsense song by Edward Lear, last in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics (3,5,2,4) |
| POBBLE | The -, Edward Lear nonsense poem in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics featuring the character Aunt Jobiska (6,3,3,2,4) |
| POBBLEWHOHASNOTOES | The ?, Edward Lear nonsense poem in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics featuring the character Aunt Jobiska |
| WHOHASNOTOES | The -, Edward Lear nonsense poem in 1877 volume Laughable Lyrics featuring the character Aunt Jobiska (6,3,3,2,4) |
| THEJUMBLIES | Poem in 1871 volume Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets by Edward Lear (3,8) |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| LEAR | What surname is shared by a US aircraft maker and the author of Laughable Lyrics in 1877? (4) |
| NEVER | In Lear's last speech, before he dies, he repeats a word five times in perfect iambic pentameter. What is that word? |
| HOME | "Wherever I'm with you," per a song by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros |
| MAHNAMAHNA | Classic nonsense song that originally appeared in the 1968 Italian movie Sweden: Heaven and Hell |
| SWAT | 'The Akond of -', nonsense poem by Edward Lear (4) |
| AKOND | The ___ of Swat, nonsense poem by Edward Lear |
| BONGTREE | Fictional plant mentioned in The Owl and the Pussycat by Edward Lear (4-4) |
| OWL | Companion of the pussy-cat in a poem by Edward Lear (3) |
| LIMERICK | Nonsense verse by Edward Lear |
| PARROTS | Known collectively as a pandemonium or a prattle, psittacine popinjays such as lovebirds or any of those depicted in lithographs by Edward Lear (7) |
| LIMERICKS | Five-line humorous verses made popular by Edward Lear |
| NONSENSE | A form of absurd verse composed by Edward Lear (8) |
| RUNCIBLESPOON | Cutlery item mentioned by Edward Lear (8,5) |
