| ILPENSEROSO | Poem by John Milton, a companion piece to L'Allegro, the title of which means The Thinker (2,9) |
| IWOJIMA | Letters from ---, Second World War film, a companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers |
| ELAL | Israeli airline, the name of which means "towards the sky" (2,2) |
| OSAKA | Japanese city, the name of which means "large slope" (5) |
| THEPRIVATEEAR | Play by Peter Shaffer, a companion piece of The Public Eye (3,7,3) |
| HYPOCHONDRIA | Head case has feelings, none of which mean well (12) |
| PARADISE | What completes the title of ___ Lost, the epic poem by John Milton? (8) |
| DOMBEYANDSON | Novel by Charles Dickens, the title of which refers to a shipping company (6,3,3) |
| IAMTHEWALRUS | Beatles song released in 1967, the title of which is based on a Lewis Carroll poem (1,2,3,6) |
| EGLANTINE | A wild rose or sweetbrier with apple-scented foliage and sprays of fragrant pink blooms in the summer; or, John Milton's word in L'Allegro for what is thought to be honeysuckle (9) |
| WOODNOTE | Word, from John Milton's pastoral poem L'Allegro, for a natural musical sound, like birdsong in a forest (8) |
| INACROWN | You Should See Me ___ Billie Eilish song released in 2018 and the title of which was inspired by a scene from Sherlock: 3 wds. |
| ASI | ___ Lay Dying 1930 novel by William Faulkner the title of which is derived from Homer's Odyssey: 2 wds. |
| ALE | 'Then to the spicy nut-brown ___' (John Milton 'L'Allegro' (1645)) (3) |
| STYGIAN | 'Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born, /'In ___ cave forlorn' (John Milton 'L'Allegro', 1645) (7) |
| IWO | Clint Eastwood's companion piece to Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from - Jima (3) |
| LOST | Epic poem by John Milton (8,4) |
| LALLEGRO | Pastoral poem by John Milton published in 1645 (8) |
| SAMSONAGONISTES | Poem by John Milton (6,9) |
| PARADISELOST | Epic poem by John Milton |
