| ITOO | Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'" |
| STILLIRISE | Maya Angelou poem with the lines "You may write me down in history / With your bitter, twisted lies" |
| LENORE | The "her" in the poem with the line "A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young" |
| APE | One once signed "Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you" |
| ITOOSINGAMERICA | Opening Langston of Hughes the poem with the lines "They'll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed" |
| MEXICANGOTHIC | Silvia Moreno-Garcia novel with the lines "The walls speak to me. They tell me secrets" |
| MEOWED | Tom had something to say to me around middle of the week (6) |
| THERAVEN | Poem with the line, "Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December" |
| ODE | "___ to the Cat" (Pablo Neruda poem with the line "emperor without a sphere of influence") |
| LEARNTO | "___ Fly" (Foo Fighters hit with the lines "I'm lookin' to the sky to save me / Lookin' for a sign of life") |
| TREES | Poem with the line "Poems are made by fools like me" |
| NATTURNER | Honoree of an 1884 poem by T. Thomas Fortune with the lines "Let tyrants quake, e'en in their power / For sure will come the awful hour" |
| HAST | "How art thou out of breath when thou ___ breath / To say to me that thou art out of breath?" (Romeo and Juliet query) |
| VOLUMES | "My dad used to say to me 'Pints, gallons, litres' - which, I think, speaks ____" (Olaf Falafel joke) (7) |
| TRACKDOWN | Run to earth with the lines set in place? (5,4) |
| AWAYINAMANGER | Carol with the lines "The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes" |
| JERRYMAGUIRE | Romcom with the lines "You complete me" and "You had me at 'hello'" * (12) |
| KNOCKONWOOD | Song with the lines, "It's like thunder, lightning, the way you love me is frightening" |
| SUZIE | "___ Q": song with the lines, "I like the way you walk / I like the way you talk" |
| HEN | Little red fairy tale character who asks "Who will help me eat the bread?" |
