| RHYMING | Slang or verses that end, like timing (7) |
| PALINDROME | With examples including "madam", "go dog" and "party trap", a word, phrase or verse that reads the same backwards and forward (10) |
| UPTALK | Speech that ends like this? |
| RIDDLES | Questions, puzzles or verses, conundrums (7) |
| ENFUEGO | Really hot, in slang or in Spanish |
| CAPRICE | Word, from Italian for "hedgehog-head", suggesting a shudder in which hair stood on end like said urchin's spines, for a sudden start/fright, mood change, impulsive act or whim (7) |
| ETERNAL | Without end - like the Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (7) |
| MITHRAS | Fun right to the end, like a god (7) |
| COUPLET | Two successive lines of verse that rhyme with each other (7) |
| EDIFIER | Might she get one fired up, at the end, like an instructor (7) |
| TWIGGED | Got wise consultant in the end - like a judge? |
| BEHEADS | Butcher bade she ends like Antoinette (7) |
| STERILE | The way to cause annoyance, staying obstinate to the end like a mule |
| LAMPOON | A satire in prose or verse ridiculing a person or literary work (7) |
| REFRAIN | Phrase or verse repeated at regular intervals throughout a song or poem (7) |
| SPASMS | Word for convulsions, cramps, starts, tics, twitches or other sharp muscular contractions; thusly sudden bursts of activity, emotion or energy; or, jocular slang for stanzas or verses (6) |
| CENTO | From "patchwork garment", a type of literary collage or mosaic consisting of a poem/writing made up of scraps or verses from other authors; or, a string of commonplace quotations (5) |
| ODES | Verses that are dedicated to something or someone |
| PANGRAMMATISTS | Meaning "all letters", a term for wordsmiths or logologists who twist all 26 graphemes of the alphabet into single sentences or verses (14) |
| EPICPOEMS | Long, elevated narrative verses that tell of the heroic deeds of legendary or historical figures (4,5) |
