| METROLAND | Sir John Betjeman's eulogy to the Metropolitan Line (9) |
| STATUE | Examples include Sir John Betjeman's at St Pancras and Harold Wilson's outside Huddersfield station (6) |
| JOYOFLIFE | English name for Suzanne Valadon's painting La Joie de vivre. bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1967 (3,2,4) |
| UNDERSTUDY | Pore over the eulogy to play one's part (10) |
| CONTRIBUTE | Pore over the eulogy to play one's part (10) |
| ALDGATE | Tube station which is the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan line (7) |
| CHALFONT | _& Latimer, station served by the Metropolitan Line and Chiltern Trains (8) |
| TWENTYFIVEYEARS | Start of a tribute to the Metropolitan Opera's James Levine |
| BAROMETRY | Study of pressure, except on old Metropolitan Line (9) |
| CLEOLAINE | English singer who was married to Sir John Dankworth (4,5) |
| COCKCROFT | Sir John Douglas ___, Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist (9) |
| TRENCHARD | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who founded the police college at Hendon (9) |
| RHEINMAIN | German name of the metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of two rivers and of the former US airbase (5-4) |
| PAVAROTTI | Star of the first "Live From the Metropolitan Opera" broadcast, 1977 |
| TOSCANINI | Italian conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York (9) |
| SCONES | Serving in John Betjeman's poem "How to Get on in Society" |
| NEWTRICKS | BBC TV drama-comedy series that ran from 2003-15 featuring the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service (3,6) |
| PINNER | Location of a "mediaeval fair" in John Betjeman's Metro-Land |
| TOILET | John Betjeman's third poet recalled (6) |
| LACHRYMAE | Painting by Lord Frederic Leighton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art depicting a woman leaning against a Doric column |
