| RINGOFFIRE | Song whose first line is: Love is a burning thing (4,2,4) |
| OSOLEMIO | Neapolitan song whose first line translates to "What a beautiful thing is a sunny day!" |
| DESIRE | "Burning" thing |
| RUINS | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (5) |
| LOVEAMONGTHE | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (4,5,3) |
| ISAWTHREESHIPS | Holiday song whose first line ends, "come sailing in" |
| NEMO | Film character whose first line is "First day of school!" |
| ANTONY | Shakespeare title character whose first line is "There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd" |
| GENIE | "Aladdin" character whose first line is "Oy! 10,000 years will give you such a crick in the neck!" |
| LEAR | Play king whose first line is "Attend the lords of France and Burgundy, Gloucester" |
| RAVEN | Poem whose first line is found among this puzzle's longest answers (3,5) |
| THE | Poem whose first line is found among this puzzle's longest answers (3,5) |
| MOBY | "___-Dick" (novel whose first line is "Call me Ishmael") |
| SPOONMAN | 1994 Soundgarden hit whose first line is "Feel the rhythm with your hands" |
| ILOVELA | Randy Newman hit whose first line is "Hate New York City" |
| PATBENATAR | ____ had a hit with the 1983 song Love is a Battlefield |
| THERAINBOW | 1915 D H Lawrence novel to which Women in Love is a sequel (3,7) |
| THELONGRUN | 1979 Eagles hit on which Don Henley sings, "We can handle some resistance / If our love is a strong one" |
| PSALM | Biblical song whose first letter is silent |
| IRT | Subway whose first line had a terminus at NYC's City Hall |
