| JONSON | Shakespeare contemporary who contributed prefatory verses to the First Folio |
| STROPHIC | Caledonian going round tourist centre with Greek character singing verses to the same tune (8) |
| ENJAMBMENT | Flow of one line of a verse to the next without pause |
| SCHOOLFELLOW | Someone's contemporary who may not be in the same class |
| ASYOULIKEIT | Pastoral comedy originally published in the First Folio of 1623 (2,3,4,2) |
| TRAGEDY | What kind of play is Romeo and Juliet, as described as in its title in the First Folio? |
| ALLISTRUE | Original title of Shakespeare's "Henry VIII" (the latter not used until the First Folio in 1623) |
| PEELE | Shakespeare contemporary George who wrote The Old Wives' Tale |
| HERBERT | Philip ---, 4th Earl of Pembroke, one of the 'incomparable pair of brethren' to whom Shakespeare's First Folio was dedicated (7) |
| SAMUELMORSE | US painter and inventor who contributed to the invesntion of the first electric telegraph in the 1830s (6,5) |
| WYATT | Poet at the court of Henry VIII who dedicated several verses to his alleged lover, Anne Boleyn (5) |
| RARE | Like copies of Shakespeare's First Folio |
| LESSON | Sacred verses to be read in class (6) |
| SECONDO | Uplifting verses to include study for vocal part (7) |
| EVERYMOTHERSSON | All verses to rhyme, no deviating |
| SEVER | Choose verses to cut inside (5) |
| WAIF | Neglected child in Washington Irving's first folio (4) |
| RAREBOOKS | "First Folio" and "Codex Leicester" for example, |
| BOLTZMANN | Austrian physicist who contributed to the kinetic theory of gases and the development of statistical |
| PUGIN | Augustus _, 19th-century English architect who contributed substantially to the design of the Palace of Westminster (5) |