| CAESURA | Pause in the middle of a line of poetry |
| FOOT | Measure equal to 12 inches; bottom of the stairs; end of a bed; or, a division of a line of poetry (4) |
| VERSE | Word, from "furrow, row, turn of a plough", for a line of poetry, where one "turns" to begin the next; or, poesy (5) |
| HIATUS | Pause in the middle in this late rush |
| ANDSCENE | Director's cry with a pause in the middle |
| IAMB | Foot in a line of poetry |
| AUSTEN | Pause in the middle and take number for author |
| QUOTED | Recited, as a line of poetry |
| CLEF | In music, a symbol normally placed at the beginning of a line of music to indicate the pitch (4) |
| IAMBIC | I am a kind of writer - like a measure of a line of verse (6) |
| GAUGE | Distance between the rails of a line of railway track, standardised in Britain and elsewhere as 4ft 8.5 in (5) |
| REST | Pause in the score for the remainder (4) |
| BREATHINGSPACE | A pause in the living room (9,5) |
| TIRED | "Give me your ___, your poor, your huddled masses" line of poetry synonymous with the Statue of Liberty. (5) |
| HEXAMETER | Graduate bowled over in university by Herrick's first line of poetry |
| PENTAMETER | Confined a measuring device for five-feet line of poetry |
| KERB | An edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (4) |
| HEMISTICH | One of two divisions of a line of verse, typically separated by a caesura (9) |
| INDIANFILE | Colloquial description of a line of people, one behind the other (6,4) |
| INCIDENCE | The frequency of a line of light falling (9) |
