| ALPH | Sacred river in 'Kubla Khan', (Coleridge) (4) |
| XANADU | In - did Kubla Khan ... (Coleridge) |
| DOME | What Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu, according to Coleridge (1,7,8-4) |
| ASIA | Kubla Khan's continent |
| PLEASUREDOME | Palace in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan (8,4) |
| PLEASURE | What Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu, according to Coleridge (1,7,8-4) |
| ASTATELY | What Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu, according to Coleridge (1,7,8-4) |
| OPIUM | Drug that Coleridge took before writing "Kubla Khan" |
| KHAN | Kubla ---, poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge subtitled 'A Vision In A Dream', first published in 1816 (4) |
| NARMADA | The second most sacred river in India (7) |
| GANGES | Sacred river in Hinduism |
| COLERIDGE | Poet whose Kubla Khan came to him in an opiated dream in a farmhouse in the Quantocks (9) |
| STATELY | What Kubla Khan decreed in Xanadu? (7,8,4) |
| ABYSSINIAN | Possibly unexpected nationality of a singing and dulcimer-playing maid in Coleridge's Kubla Khan |
| KUBLA | "In Xanadu did __ Khan ... ": Coleridge |
| RALPH | Name for Kubla Khan's sacred one? (5) |
| SAMUELTAYLORCOLERIDGE | Along with Wordsworth, the founder of the Romantic Movement in England, who wrote the poem Kubla Khan (6,6,9) |
| HONEYDEW | Food supplied and eaten by 20s (and Kubla Khan?) (8) |
| SUNLESS | "...down to a --- sea": "Kubla Khan" |
| GRIFFES | US composer known for a tone poem, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan (7) |
