| NOVEL | See off the composer of Perchance to Dream? That's original |
| INFINITIVE | To sleep, perchance to dream? (10) |
| LIEASLEEP | Don't tell the truth about dreams? That's down time! (3,6) |
| HAMLET | Whence the line "To sleep: perchance to dream" |
| TODIE | "___, to sleep / To sleep: perchance to dream": Shakespeare |
| RUB | "to sleep, perchance to dream - aye, there's the ..." (Hamlet) |
| ROD | Serling who wrote the TV script "Perchance to Dream" |
| THERESTHERUB | Line in Hamlet's "To sleep, perchance to dream" soliloquy |
| WAGNERITE | Admirer of the composer of 'The Ring of the Nibelung' (9) |
| LEHAR | Surname of the composer of The Land Of Smiles, The Merry Widow, etc. (5) |
| SLEEP | "To ___: perchance to dream": Hamlet |
| AYTHERESTHERUB | "To sleep, perchance to dream" follower |
| CROSSTHERUBICON | "Perchance to dream" amid religious images - pass 9 (5,3,7) |
| MODERATO | "Perchance to dream ..." 12 played with restraint (8) |
| WELLGATHERLILACS | Hit song from Ivor Novello's 1945 musical Perchance to Dream (4,6,6) |
| SIAMESE | As I'm ordered to see off the foreigners (7) |
| NEPALESE | Plane prepared to see off the foreigner (8) |
| SPEAR | Surname of the composer of the theme to Coronation Street (5) |
| ROMBERG | Surname of the composer of The Student Prince and The Desert Song (7) |
| BRITTEN | What is the surname of the composer of the opera Billy Budd? (7) |