| VAUNT | Show off verse written by relative |
| SEVER | Cut off verse composition (5) |
| SONNETS | Child sent off verses (7) |
| POEM | Verse, written by US short-story writer, read by millions (4) |
| EUGENE | _ Onegin, 19th-century novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin (6) |
| NONSENSE | Form of absurd verse written by Edward Lear, for example (8) |
| THEVERYIDEA | They passed around verse written by troubled aide that's absurd (3,4,4) |
| IONIC | Verse written in histrionic style? (5) |
| REVISE | Again study translation of verse written about Island |
| WITHOUTRHYMEORREASON | Like illogical blank verse written for the sake of it? |
| EVEN | Verse written for PM's daughter in the same plane |
| NERVELESS | Len's verse written without emotion |
| PRIMROSE | All except verse written about border flower (8) |
| PENSIVE | Author's verse, written inside, that is solemn (7) |
| REVERSED | Turned completely around when verse written in red (8) |
| HEXAMETER | Verse written in lines of six metrical feet, as used in classical epics such as The Iliad, The Odyssey and The Aeneid (9) |
| STANZA | Pattern of verse written about a well known bank in Tasmania (6) |
| ARMOIREELEGY | Verses written for a destroyed piece of furniture? (Poet's fee: $3,000!) |
| MODICUM | Small amount of verse penned by relative (7) |
| STEPSON | Parts of a process supported by relative by marriage (7) |
